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Punishment

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Punishment has several potential goals:

  1. deterrence - To prevent this person (or others) from doing this again
  2. rehabilitation - to force a person to change their worldview/values/actions for the better
  3. retribution - to make them "pay" for what they've done
  4. protection - to make sure they couldn't hurt someone again

The shared principle behind all these goals is the method. Punishment is by definition harmful. It assumes a Cognitive Alignment, that a bad action results from a bad person. It treats them as objects.

Punishment usually backfires because it most likely leads to Reactance, we want to harm those that have harmed us, which is a Negative cycle. Also we the punishers are harmed morally by issuing these actions, because it corrupts the soul to do evil virtue theory.

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