Not the punishment, but to make the analogy more precise: society's "interest" in individual murders does decrease proportionally with its own size. In a villa

Not the punishment, but to make the analogy more precise: society's "interest" in individual murders does decrease proportionally with its own size. In a village, a murder is the talk of town. In a city, we don't even know. So, yes; GPs point, while cold and calculating in the way only actuaries can sometimes be, was a fair point nonetheless.