Punishment
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Government indifference is a strange and unnatural state of mind, in which the lines between crime and punishment, cruelty and compassion, and good and evil blur.
Indifference for Bonhoeffer was not only a sin, but also a type of
punishment.
Brexit should be seen as a
punishment
for events like the 2014 European elections, when it was evident, even before anyone voted, who would become the head of the EU commission, who would lead the EU parliament, and which of the parliament’s factions would be the largest.
Women in such circumstances face a double punishment: loss of liberty and family.
But, because we cannot be certain that the threat of
punishment
deters all crime, or that all criminals are caught, our ability to induce gun owners to behave responsibly is limited.
First, it emphasizes the government’s commitment to “respect and protect human rights,” prohibiting law-enforcement authorities from extracting confessions “by torture, corporal punishment, or abuse” and abolishing widely criticized programs for “re-education through the labor system.”
By demanding severe
punishment
for those guilty of war crimes – not the Pakistani Army, long gone, but their local collaborators in groups like Jamaat-e-Islami, Al Badar, Al Shams, and the Razakar irregulars – the protesters are also implicitly describing the society in which they wish to live: secular, pluralist, and democratic.
But
punishment
could be harsh.
With violent crimes on a shocking upsurge, with the hideous crimes of child rape and abuse on the increase, there are nowadays frequent calls – backed by wide public support – to restore capital
punishment.
The type of justice South Africa practiced, what I call “restorative justice” is, unlike retribution, not basically concerned with punishment, it is not fundamentally punitive.
Drug use there is a third of the European average – the result of decades of consistent policies (irrespective of changes in government) that combine tough
punishment
of dealers and comprehensive treatment for users.
Our administration is committed to transforming a country where nice guys finish last into one where those who deviate from the straight and narrow face
punishment
for their crimes.
For thousands of years, humans have relied on education, persuasion, social institutions, and the threat of real (or supernatural)
punishment
to make people behave decently.
Nonetheless, I understand the impulse to limit
punishment
in order that society heal and rebuild.
For
punishment
of systematic, historical human rights crimes as a matter of government policy is only morally justified if it is designed to protect society from greater evils in the future.
There are real social consequences in seeking
punishment
for such people.
It is not rational to impose such
punishment
when the consequences, far from preventing future crimes, may incite or cause greater or new social damage.
Punishment
is ultimately an instrument – not the only one, nor the most important – for restoring a collective moral conscience to societies ravaged by dictatorship.
More important than punishment, I believe, is the revelation of truth by credible means, such as through an impartial judicial process.
But a society’s decision to waive
punishment
for human rights violators is not necessarily a sign that its moral awareness remains stunted.
Only then will history’s crimes receive the response they demand, which first and foremost is not punishment, but the certainty that such crimes will not reoccur.
Because of failing health, Pinochet may still escape
punishment.
In early October, the authorities doubled down by proposing a draft law, which has now been submitted to Parliament, to expand the use of capital
punishment
for drug offenses.
Bangladesh’s legislation move would move the country to the extreme fringe of the international community and buck the global trend toward abolishing capital
punishment.
The Morality of Capital PunishmentThe US is often criticized for its refusal to abolish capital
punishment.
Many now claim that abolition of capital
punishment
is a precondition of a civilized criminal-law system.
European governments are adamantly opposed to capital
punishment
– the European Union bans it outright – and some Europeans consider its use in the United States barbaric.
Indeed, many European intellectuals argue that not just capital punishment, but
punishment
in general, does not deter criminals.
By contrast, American rates have fallen, in part because of greater use of
punishment.
This includes capital
punishment.
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