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As you would expect, the flagellator was not a popular man. In a sense he was kindred to the free-hangman (while the hangman had typically fallen so far from social grace that it was the last thing they could really do, the falgellator had his destiny as pariah thrust upon him.) See: Nosy Bob for a particularly colorful life story of a hangman in the mid to late 1800s New South Wales.

Flagellators, were generally chosen by the guards so it wasn't a volunteered position. Selected for their solid build and often from military backgrounds (floggings were even more common in the military, and often with harsher sentences from 100-200 lashes). these men were essentially cursed by their position.

As you became the symbol of betrayal and violent oppression, violence could readily be rallied against you. Alexander Adams was stabbed in the eye as he approached Henry Ryan to tie him to the triangle. The term 'flagellator' was loaded with enough stigma that to call someone it would be seen as fighting words. One James Hunt referred to Mark Jefferies as a 'Port Arthur flogger" a phrase which offended the young man so much that he proceeded to beat James to death.