Obviously the word "sadism" from the Marquis de Sade goes a little bit further and takes it into the realm of "perversion" or fetish, of supposedly liking people suffering "for its own sake" But I don't think it's that easy to detach one from the other
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And this response is baked in, it's visceral, it forms the basis of much of "human nature" across different cultures When someone fucks with you you have an immediate response that they need to be punished, based on a deep fear response that if you don't, they'll do it again
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It's a deeply ingrained fear response, and persists even if it seems "irrational" (like a situation where it seems, on a practical level, unlikely that the crime will be repeated) It *feels wrong* to just let it go, the sense that an unpunished sin will recur is very powerful
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I think I learned early enough that responses to things were unpredictable that this isn’t extricable from “I want their capabilities removed” instead, partly because if it’s going to react satisfyingly and in no other way, on a reliable basis, why am I enemies with it
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This makes abstract death penalty discourses… fun (I avoid them.)
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