2006-08-14 08:08:29 · 10 answers · asked by Giggly Giraffe 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Humans are motivated not only by fear of punishment but by guilt and love. If you stimulate these two, you may have no need for punishment.
Ask yourself, why haven't you murdered anyone (yet)? Is it only because you're afraid of getting arrested and executed?
P.S. This doesn't mean that we shouldn't have prisons. but rather that these prisons should be a method of correcting a behavior rather than a method of punishment. Punishing someone usually creates a resentment rather than a genuine change.
2006-08-14 08:15:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can't remove punishment from the equation entirely because they UNIVERSE punishes people regularly. After all, if you're fool enough to grab a hot iron or try to jump off a building, it's the pain you suffer that usually prevents you from doing it again.
Or course, maybe you just meant on a societal level. But I think that's a tough one too. After all, that means no guilt trips from moms to elicit cooperation or husbands sleeping on the couch when they stay out too late. People punish each other so frequently and casually, I don't think you're likely to eliminate it any time soon.
The only way in which we COULD reduce punishment would be to remove much of it from our judicial system... to try and make sentances for crimes a matter of re-training and lifestyle change rather than just sheerly punitive. However, keep in mind that one man's meat is another man's poison. No matter WHAT we do to people with socially undesirable behaviours, SOMEONE is going to find that to be an atrocious punishment.
Still, unlike other respondents, I don't see a change like this necessarily causing crime to shoot through the roof. Most criminals flatly think that they will not be caught, so arguably there is very little deterrent value in any punishment we use. And if the penalty for wrongdoing was to be forced to 'live an honest lifestyle' then we wouldn't have to worry about convicting innocent people because living honestly would be something they already do and thus it would be no inconvenience at all!
How do we manage this? Search me. But it seems like a good idea, if you can get it off the ground, so to speak.
2006-08-14 08:37:55 · answer #2 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Asian culture is based on the idea of pride to curb crime. It is not a reward and punishment basis. People are civil because it is what is right. It is dignified. Only in our country of consumer driven economic fixation that we must punish to prevent. Until a person can accept the responsibility for their life, punishment doesn't matter anyway. It's not the punishment we should take away. It's morality we should instill.
2006-08-14 08:28:37 · answer #3 · answered by grantleegregory 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
From an economic standpoint, without punishment, there's no incentive to not hurt other people. You could attempt to instill a moral obligation in someone, but in a sense, when they commit a crime against another person, they are punishing themselves, and therefore you haven't really taken away punishment.
2006-08-14 08:32:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"punishment" is an intangeable... you cannot add nor remove an inangeable... there will always be punishment of one form or another... "eye for an eye" kind of thing. People get angry and take it out on other people.
2006-08-14 08:54:09 · answer #5 · answered by matt_tarwater 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Grantleegregory that is nonsense.
For a start it is ridiculous to assert that there is one uniform "asian culture". Asia includes everyone from indonesia which has a very harsh punishment system, to Turkey, who are borderline european, but technically asian.
This whole asian values, asian family stuff (asian whatever) is pure nonsense.
2006-08-15 02:31:39 · answer #6 · answered by Jeremy D 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We'd all be happy campers who kill, steal, rape and bomb the shiit out of one another! Yay! Hooray for no punishment!
2006-08-14 08:22:39 · answer #7 · answered by sothisislife 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what punishment? they already took it away... hahaha.. we need it back. Let the schools dicipline again, let parents smack an *** now and then..
2006-08-14 14:02:53 · answer #8 · answered by tootsie45414 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The world would run rampant with delinquents.
2006-08-14 08:32:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
easy, criminals would get away with more terrible crimes and they would never stop, because there's no punishment. like child molestors that go through rehad and counseling and their first day back out they molest another child... its those that i believe should be castruated and their hands cut off, wut would they do then? nothing and another innocent child could live their life god intended for them
2006-08-14 08:15:28 · answer #10 · answered by eve25 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋