Animals in front of the courts and wives are auctioned .. Have you missed the human mind?

The Swiss newspaper Loutan wondered in an article about whether man was indeed rational in view of the many naive social practices that human history had witnessed over the centuries.

Some of these practices were manifested in the sale of wives at auction in England in the 19th century, and the trial of rats, cockroaches and locusts in Italy, Switzerland and France during the Renaissance.

The study of economic thought can reveal the secret behind some of these practices, trying to show some practices that seem completely out of context.

In Europe in the Middle Ages, for example, when it is impossible to determine the criminal responsibility of the person, then the divine judgment can be resorted to. The accused is required to dip his arm into a pot of boiling water or to carry a piece of hot glowing iron along nine steps. Without harm from this criminal trial.

"The eccentric rituals are in fact ingenious solutions to pressing problems that intelligent people have put together with time and space," says Peter Leeson in his book The Economy of the Kingdom of Temptation.

Ruling on Solomon
In order to understand the secret behind these rituals, the newspaper says one must reread Solomon's judgment in the Bible when two women disputed the motherhood of a child. The king proposed dividing the infant into two halves and giving each half half. One of them accepted and rejected the other. .

In the same way, the trial is exposed to fire on the defendants. The innocents accept their experience and the criminals refuse to fight it, and they are exposed to the refusal, knowing that the priests are deliberately falsifying it, as historical research revealed that trials by fire cleared most of the people who passed through them.

The documents of the Royal Courts of England, which proved that the proportion of defendants' innocence reached 81% between 1194 and 1219, as reported in the newspaper article, and thus this type of misfortune, far from being a medieval atrocity, aims to make criminal justice more Effectiveness in exploiting the myths of individuals.

As for the sale of wives in England during the Industrial Revolution, far from embodying the madness of women's hatred, it actually helps a large number of married women get rid of a failed marriage without paying for a divorce that is not borne by the working class. By their lovers.

So the issue seems to be a smart solution that goes beyond the legal dilemma. A woman sold in the Smithfield market said it was the happiest day of her life.

Trial of animals
As for the trial of the animal, the church's courts have for 250 years prosecuted insects and rodents as juridical persons under the same laws and procedures as human trials and have already issued rulings against snails, mice and locusts.

Even in these apparently naive trials, the wisdom of the Church is hidden. The Catholic Church imposes taxes on agricultural and animal production, and on land and sea fishing, and therefore people circumvent it.

Because the Church does not have the means to reveal the transgressors, I have imagined a way to enhance confidence in its supernatural punishments.

Hence, the punishment of insects arose, in which the Church showed its extraordinary abilities to punish, especially since the punishment of a rat who ate the fields is the same as the supernatural punishment that is imposed on those who refrain from paying the tax.

According to Peter Leeson, the churchmen are deliberately prolonging the trial process to give the impression that insects have died because of the conviction and execution by them, and this illusion can convince citizens to pay taxes to the church.

In conclusion, the article asks whether man still has the ability to manipulate his mind? Pointing out that the lie detector used by the CIA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation - for example - is nothing but nonsense that is rejected by the majority of the scientific community, but nevertheless the public believe in the quality of their ancestors who believed in the fairness of the trial by fire.