One of the universal killers of growup discussions about mercy-deterrence balances: just admitting the existence of a trade-off sounds like saying "It's complicated," which sounds like an argument for mercy, which sounds like taking the side of Bad.
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This sounds not entirely unlike Catholicism. Many detailed rules developed from millennia of arguments, mediated by a hierarchy of professional scholars, and an expectation of pretty much constant failure and guilt.
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