fact is, whipping someone 40 times will only seriously danger them if you try to permanently injure them. I do not believe permanent injuries like that are acceptable. You can whip someone not that hard 40 times. you don't whip someone as hard as you can or that it kills them or permanently injures them. that would be immoral.
"During the
American Revolutionary War, the American Congress raised the legal limit on lashes from 39 to 100 for soldiers who were convicted by courts-martial."
"There were protests in Egypt this week after an Egyptian doctor
was sentenced to 15 years in prison and 1,500 lashes by the Saudi Arabian government for prescribing medicine to a princess that "drove her to addiction." The wife of the convicted doctor worried publicly that the sentence would kill him. How many lashes can one man stand? It depends on how you're lashed. It's very unlikely that the doctor will die from his sentence if it is administered in the usual Saudi Arabian way—i.e., broken up into weekly bouts of 50 lashings each."
There are also ancient law codes of ancient mesopatamia which have 100 lashes. You are overreacting once again trying to make me look like I am a worse person. Demonization.
"In colloquial usage, the term demonization is used metaphorically to refer to
propaganda or
moral panic directed against any individual or group."