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It seems that the efficacy of the punishment is predicated on the idea that those who rape, murder, throw acid in the face of other people, etc. are motivated and demotivated by the same things that keep other people from doing them. When that is obviously not true.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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