Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.
I've never been a believer in the physical punishment of children. I don't think it is necessary.
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.
Suffering isn't a moral endowment. People don't always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a fellow in that situation to make him angry.
This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!
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