Is This A Crime ? Really ?

[moi621 (imported)]

http://news.yahoo.com/india-police-prob ... _container

India police probe godman over alleged castration of 400 followers

"Indian police said they are investigating a popular self-styled godman for allegedly encouraging 400 followers to undergo castrations at his ashram so they could get closer to god. . . ."

So where is the criminal activity?

Did he promise the men convinced to be castrated a Darwin Award?

Moi

[fhunter]

So where is the criminal activity?

Did he promise the men convinced to be castrated a Darwin Award?

Moi

Didn't Darwin Award involve dying in process? Or am I mistaken?

[C&TL2745 (imported)]

Didn't Darwin Award involve dying in process? Or am I mistaken?

Death is required. The whole idea of associating the name with Darwin is that the person removed himself from the gene pool. However, I think I recall some "Honorable Mentions" that didn't involve death, and I suppose if someone removed himself from the gene pool by some colossally stupid act resulting in inability to pass on his genes, he might at least meet the spirit of the thing.

Sandi

[kristoff]

Death is required. The whole idea of associating the name with Darwin is that the person removed himself from the gene pool. However, I think I recall some "Honorable Mentions" that didn't involve death, and I suppose if someone removed himself from the gene pool by some colossally stupid act resulting in inability to pass on his genes, he might at least meet the spirit of the thing.

Sandi

Like the guy who tried washing his own balls in the golf ball washer at the golf park. As I recall, they were ripped off.

[JesusA (imported)]

Castration, for any reason, was made a crime in India under the British Raj. The British included hijra among the "criminal castes" and tried to eliminate them. This has much more to do with British sensibilities than with traditional Indian culture, but the laws still stand. They are, however, selectively enforced.

The Darwin Awards are given to those individuals who have contributed to human evolution and the improvement of the species by self-selecting themselves out the gene pool by their own actions – preferably before reproducing. There are generally three (or sometimes four) criteria used for selecting the most appropriate "winners":

1. Inability to reproduce. The individual must be dead or permanently sterile as a result of the action.

2. The individual must demonstrate astoundingly stupid judgment. Basically, they should not have planned to remove themselves, but accomplished it by some incredibly dumb activity.

3. The individual must be the chief cause of his own (or her own in rare cases) removal from the gene pool. Removing an innocent bystander by the action will disqualify the individual.

4. The individual must be an adult - though sometimes this requirement is waived.

[Riverwind (imported)]

I need to go visit that site again, I have not done so in a couple years but always found great for a good laugh.

River

[Riverwind (imported)]

I just visited the 2014 list for the Darwin awards for this year, as many of the candidates died the one in the lead is an Englishman who found a great way to castrate himself, go figure.

River

[JesusA (imported)]

I just visited the 2014 list for the Darwin awards for this year, as many of the candidates died the one in the lead is an Englishman who found a great way to castrate himself, go figure.

River

Here's the Darwin Award Nominee that River mentions:

The Thing Ring

2014 Darwin Award Nominee

Confirmed True by Darwin

(May 2014, England) In the interest of public safety, Darwin Awards editors are releasing this ribald event to the public to serve as a warning to adventurous amorous males. The event was brought to our attention by an eyewitness, who provided additional details (withheld for privacy reasons) to confirm it.

"Being part of emergency services, firemen are called upon to get people out of unlikely situations. We were summoned to the A&E Department of a central London hospital to assist in removing a "thing ring." With our ring cutters at the ready, we were presented with the patient, his 'meat and two veg' extremely swollen and such a dark purple that they were almost blackened. The whole sorry mess was encircled by a thick titanium ring. Normally the procedure to remove a thing ring is a five-minute affair, but our cutters could not make a mark on the titanium! After expending a number of cutter blades we had to concede defeat.

"The man in question had put himself into this situation three days prior to committing himself to A&E, delaying the hospital visit due to embarrassment and a vain hope that it would resolve itself in time. Unfortunately this error in judgement cost him dearly. The wonderful doctors can often drain blood and remove the ring the way it went on--yet by the time he sought help, and our tools had been defeated, his jewels was past saving. Full castration--the result of the man's own actions and decisions--make this eunuch a self-selected nominee for a living Darwin Award.

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This meets all four criteria for the Darwin Award:

1. It resulted in total and permanent sterility,

2. It was an astonishingly stupid and painful act,

(If he wanted to be castrated, there are better ways....)

3. He did it to himself, and

4. He was an adult.

[SplitDik (imported)]

I had to go to the hospital once to have a ring cut off my cock. My cock normally wouldn't get stuck in a ring but this time i also injected alcohol into the head of the penis so that swelled up tremendously. Luckily it was a platinum decorative ring so they could use normal ring cutters although they mentioned that the platinum was harder than gold and they said that if it had been titanium I'd have been screwed (or even thicker, non-decorative ring like steel). I went after two hours (I had put it on hoping to lose my cock but then chickened out once the reality set in). It also turned out to be my most expensive self-harm episode since the ring that was destroyed was a $10k designer platinum ring (actually my wedding ring so my wife wasn't pleased at all)!

The attending doctor, when letting me go, actually said "if you do it again, always use a plastic ring". Good advice I think!