Agreed. I think for me, bizarre because the conclusion was so medieval. I get that it is a philosophical essay so reasoning like "I do not agree with punishing

Agreed. I think for me, bizarre because the conclusion was so medieval. I get that it is a philosophical essay so reasoning like "I do not agree with punishing family members for the crimes of their kin because I am a civilized human being" isn't really going to point us readers to anything new. But "... because I ascribe to an equally medieval value that the punishment of a crime must include the suffering of the perpetrator" was a shocking, rather bizarre turn that I had not expected.