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Treadmills Were Not Created For Exercise: They Were Torture Devices
We know that people in ancient history had quite a knack for cruelty, injustice, dishonesty,…actually, it was illiteracy. Good and bad people have always been there in societies, in all eras. But when it came to the punishments, people in power to punish would lose their sanity and humanity.
Crucification, pealing off peoples’ skin, crushing of heads by making an elephant walk on it, sawing in half, and so much more were the tortures.
The treadmill was also a form of torture.
Treadmill, a Punishment
A track under your feet, you run or jog, yet space never changes its form, and time, it never seems to pass by, and you say: “What torture am I putting myself through!”
And it surely was a punishment for the English prisoners.
Background
Britain in Victorian times was suffering from major law and order situations. Crime rates were increasing at a fast pace. Therefore, the government wanted to create punishments cruel enough to make other people stop committing more crimes.
