Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves. |
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One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others |
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others |
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Punishment is lame, but it comes |
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. |
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