Are lashings an approprate form of punishment?

1. 2020-03-09 at 7:23 PM UTC

   #1
   

   Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Dark Matter [my scoffingly uncritical tinning]

   Videos of two men licking holy shrines in Iran went viral last week, with one individual seen licking the Masumeh shrine in Qom, while saying, “I’m not scared of coronavirus.”
   
   In another video, a man states he plans to lick the shrine “so the disease can go inside my body and others can visit it with no anxiety.”
   
   The men face up to two years in jail in addition to 74 lashes.

   https://www.zerohedge.com/health/dc-priest-who-shook-500-hands-communion-has-coronavirus
   
   Are lashings a good idea/an appropriate addition to jail time?
2. 2020-03-09 at 10:50 PM UTC

   #2
   

   snab_snib African Astronaut
   its better than prison. no prison sentence should be longer than a year, if that + lashings isn't enough to correct a person, it must be a bad enough crime that they should be put to death (only by the victims family, or the victim, however. if they don't have the guts to do it, he walks free.)
   
   this is just a compromise on my part though.
   
   legalize murder
   legalize rape