I am pointing out that this is an accepted practice for crime and punishment in the Game of Thrones universe. The only hypocrisy here is that the elites exempt themselves from this punishment.
The High Sparrow is holding the elites to the same punishment standards that everyone else is held to.
Explain to me how making everyone equally subject to the law of the land is hypocritical?
“I am pointing out that this is an accepted practice for crime and punishment in the Game of Thrones universe.”
Except it really isn’t. Imprisonment sure, but beatings and starvation? Nope. That’s practiced by outlaws like the Bloody Mummers and Ramsay Snow, not by legitimate authorities.
Even imprisonment is only normally done pending a trial, which happens swiftly in this universe. The Sparrow, on the other hand, imprisons people and tortures them until they confess, and only then do they get a trial. Of course, since a confession has been coerced, the results of the trial are a foregone conclusions, so his trials are kangaroo courts.
Martyrs suck, especially when they tell everyone who’ll listen they’re willing to die for their cause, and then decide they’ll bring everyone else with them.