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Just Punishment?

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  • Actually, Eben's comments about how Arnold would point out that we might have no conscious clue what we're doing made me think harder about that today...which gets to my first comment on my own paper, which is that I might actually be removing those parts in an edit. Sorry for the cop-out, but I'm not sure I'm willing to stand behind those lines. -- DRussellKraft - 03 Mar 2010
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  • Hi, Derek-- here are two thoughts: (1) I would've liked to hear more about the significance of us being part of the aristocratic class and having control over the system; (2) You seem to assume in your conclusion that people in the aristocratic class are long-run oriented: the aristocratic class is motivated to make x and y changes to the justice system, because in doing so they increase their future wealth. I thought greed kept the aristocratic class thinking short-run, though... Wouldn't they want to maintain the status quo? -- KalliopeKefallinos - 03 Mar 2010
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  • Hi, Derek-- here are two thoughts: (1) I would've liked to hear more about the significance of us being part of the aristocratic class and having control over the system; (2) You seem to assume in your conclusion that people in the aristocratic class are long-run oriented: the aristocratic class is motivated to make x and y changes to the justice system, because in doing so they increase their future wealth. I thought greed kept the aristocratic class thinking short-run, though... Wouldn't they want to maintain the status quo? -- KalliopeKefallinos - 03 Mar 2010
 
  • I'm playing off your second definition, and thinking about how a community, implicated in the wrong/sinful acts of one of its members, might seek to absolve itself of guilt and thereby make itself righteous before God -- and how such absolution might obtain in a secularized world. This article gets at the basic idea: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2713065?seq=4 -- GloverWright - 02 Mar 2010
  • How do you mean, Glover? -- DRussellKraft - 02 Mar 2010
  • I wonder if there might also be a broader cultural point to make about theological justification? -- GloverWright - 02 Mar 2010

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