Many on here like to wish suffering on bad guys like rapists & terrorists, but this is ape thinking. Even the most heinous of human monsters are merely malfunctioning arrangements of matter, and therefore as deserving of suffering as rabid chimps or glitchy TVs.
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Your attitude is precisely what leads to populism though. You deny people their (natural) feelings, rationalize them away. You are blind to the fact that if many people don’t share your view that implementing such a view undermines the social cohesion and structure of a society.
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This isn’t a ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ issue, what is ‘fair’ is all subjective anyway: nature knows no such thing as fair. I take a pragmatic point of view; what is society most likely to approve of vs what will undermine cohesion. Intellectuals arguing against punishment is the latter
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You are conflating "payback" with "justice." An argument can be simple and not simplistic. The point of restorative, retributive or any other Western style justice system isn't to satiate a revenge fantasy. How does watching someone writhe make a person whole?
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