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Someone pointed it out to me that, if a person does something bad and faces the consequences by law, then that should be the end of it. Applying a personal puni
by tecoholic 2mo ago
Someone pointed it out to me that, if a person does something bad and faces the consequences by law, then that should be the end of it. Applying a personal punishment individually like avoiding anything they have involved in, is pointless or even unfair.
It can’t apply to all scenarios. But that struck me as an important thing to consider. Sometimes people get out of the consequences by using the riches they accumulated by being bad.
- soco 2mo agoWhy are we even thinking about "fairness" in this context? It's not like we read every book in the world, in order to be fair to all authors. Or all genres, all qualities, all equally. You have to make some choices and actually make every second a choice, to pick a book, to pick it up, to continue it after page 100...
- tecoholic 2mo agoI don’t think it’s that fairness. It’s about - what’s a fair amount of punishment? Since society has created the laws and laid down mechanisms to punish wrongs, each person then individually deciding to punish the person is unfair in a civilised society. P.S: I was writing it as a response to the my parent comment. I haven’t read C&G books and don’t know this author.