We’ve been using systems involving punishment for thousands of years and we’re still exhibiting the same harmful, unsocial behaviors.
In Old England, when they used to string people up for things like robbery, the corpses were displayed along streets and roads. Paradoxically, after executions, violence and crime actually rose.
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Mon Aug 25, 2008 2:12 pm
Cygnus wrote:
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We’ve been using systems involving punishment for thousands of years and we’re still exhibiting the same harmful, unsocial behaviors.
In Old England, when they used to string people up for things like robbery, the corpses were displayed along streets and roads. Paradoxically, after executions, violence and crime actually rose.
Precisely to my point. When authority figures (the people generally looked to for moral guidance) act violently, it only makes sense that some of the populous will follow by example.
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