Thanks for sharing those definitions. I think you've nailed it in your last paragraph, especially: > A single punishment without rehabilitation is already gene

Thanks for sharing those definitions. I think you've nailed it in your last paragraph, especially: > A single punishment without rehabilitation is already generational. Many states and localities in the US is indeed a stark example of what sort of consequences a retributive system of justice has on society (for example, California 3-strikes, extraordinary sentences for minor crimes in the many states, etc). The damage it's had has been inordinate. Most crime, indeed, doesn't have evil at the center of it. For example, drug and intellectual property law violations should really be civil offenses.