Why is it punishment has been inherent in the human condition since the dawn of time?
Is it because we wish to pass judgment on others for judgment sake, is it for some other hideous reason or is it much clearer than all of that?
Most are able to tell between the two, identifying with the former while utterly rejecting the latter.
Just as well, as it should be lest we developed into individual rascals ever-ready to do the utmost best to turn human relations into something unbearable.
If one accepts that most phenomena around us - in the broadest sense - follow the Gaussian distribution then it becomes fairly easy to comprehend that it is both the fringes that need permanent checking.
While extreme goodness - yes there are such types - is no threat, evilness and extreme forms of badness certainly are.
This is where the concept of punishment kicks in. To different levels of severity no doubt, nevertheless a forceful retribution on someone who did what should not have been done.
Justice is not a far-fetched ideal when so many everywhere are confronted daily with horrendous dids and situations.
The unchangeable enduring nature of humankind lends overwhelming evidence to the fact that some form of repression - call it punishment, reprimand, rebuke, reproach or what you will - must be exercised to safeguard essential values most of us would wish were naturally shared by all.
They are not, they've never been, they never will be and it would be wishful to think otherwise.
But what would society look like if there was no judiciary, no courts, no jails, no police, etc.(?).
Not a single component of what came to be the 'punishment system', no matter how imperfect, and took ages to build...
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