Surely you agree that punishment comes in degrees. What's the smallest degree you'd be willing to call punishment? Would "consequences" be a better word? To my thinking "punishment" is just "negative consequences"
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Replying to @agoonforhire
I'm not interested in these kind of semantic or conceptual arguments. They just get bogged down in degrees & exceptions & perceptions. "You deserve some kind of official penalty for holding that bad idea' is a problem. 'Now everyone thinks you're an idiot' is not.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I was trying to establish a common language for this reason -- you just swapped out "punishment" or "consequences" for "official penalty" which is a very distinct class of "punishment". I agree entirely about "official penalties"
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