Libya - The Believer Self Inflicts Public Pain, Flogging a Woman for Adultery Exposes the Violence of Moral Certainty

Event Baseline: A video surfaces showing a woman being publicly flogged 100 lashes for adultery in Sabha, Libya, sparking outrage over the punishment carried out in a public space.

Religious certainty is a virus that overwrites empathy. The believer does not see a person; it sees a violation of a code. The lash is the physical expression of a thought. The ideal of 'purity' demands the flesh be torn. This is the danger of all belief systems that claim absolute truth. They justify cruelty as virtue. The public spectacle is meant to reinforce the tribal illusion of shared morality. But it only reveals the sadistic core of the fragmented self. The self, identified with its religious identity, cannot perceive the woman's pain as real. It only sees an object to correct. This is a catastrophic cognitive failure. The mind is so trapped by its programming that it mistakes mutilation for justice. Such a system is incompatible with life.