If you are robbed and the person is punished, you were still robbed. Punishing them doesn't change the facts.
If you are mugged and the person is punished, you were still mugged. Punish them doesn't change the facts.
If you are raped and the person is punished, you were still raped. Punishing them doesn't change the facts.
If a love one is murdered and the person is punished, you have still lost your loved one. Punishing them doesn't change the facts.
How do you justify or rationalize punishment?
2007-07-23 02:18:20 · 10 answers · asked by guru 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
i been punished a lot by mom i still do sometimes but i think the reason for punish is teach them a lesson that that is not right so they will know there consequeunces next time but i guess sometimes people who repeat crimes are stupid i mean why would a murderer still murder after what they know will happen to them, same with the rapist and the mugger or robbers
2007-07-23 02:24:34 · answer #1 · answered by hockey fan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It can be any of several things:
it can be a just "reward" that the violator deserves
it can be a deterrent, to PREVENT violations and violence, thats the ideal purpose of it
it can be society's anger made manifest against someone for the violation, hopefully made towards the violator instead of someone innocent and scape-goated
(some cases through history have shown that the object of the punishment didn't matter -- even if an innocent person, just as long as someone got punished, society feels appeased)
2007-07-23 14:43:20 · answer #2 · answered by million$gon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was molested by a family member when I was younger... I never felt like punishing the particular person but rather men in the whole...don't know why but I felt really guilty about it...as if it was my fault... my take on punishment is "what goes around comes around"... I have had my fair share of bad experiences but I have always learnt something out of them (even if it took me 10 years)... is very important to apologize when you know you were wrong in a situation and ask the person's forgiveness... and the really hard part is to ACCEPT...just like you said... It's in the past...there's nothing you can do about it... Whatever happened might still have an effect on you and how you experience the world but only you can change your future experiences by changing your attitude!
2007-07-23 09:32:00 · answer #3 · answered by Space Monkey 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
my idea of punishment is to teach someone why something is wrong such as a child that if you pull a hot boiling pan of water on an animal or other person you will receive swift retribution and this is why we don't kill;
however our society allows sects in every inner city to promote racism,murder,robbery,rape,homosexualtiy etc,etc
and then decries civilazation as being the evil and the prison system everyone knows is a homosexual rape program to just create more murderers,robbers,rapists etc etc....what is the homosexual rapist afraid of that he will get sent to prison to homosexually rape more people and not have to work to provide a roof over his head??There is no deterrant.If you get sent to prison for 5 years and get raped every couple of days until you become a homo and then begin taking part in gay rapings and the prison guards approve and encourage such behaviour or at least look the other way as well as the police and judges and congress and senate and U.N and all of the comedians make jokes about it on tv and radio and everyone in this country know about it so everyone in this country is an accomplice to gay rape!!
There is no justice.The Right to Bear Arms is my theory of punishment
2007-07-23 09:56:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Punishment hurts and is unpleasant.
So, punishment works as a deterrent.
Learning from punishment is a whole different story.
Until a person ask "why am I being punished" as opposed
to blaming others, nothing is gained.
2007-07-23 09:29:28 · answer #5 · answered by Randy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Punishment is only valuable to the injured as payback. Not a big deal. Punishment to the inflicter is a deterrent to the inflicter. It also can be used to segregate the person from the rest of society as a deterrent.
2007-07-23 10:41:19 · answer #6 · answered by ustoev 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So you're saying a person who violates the rights of others, right up to and including ending their lives, should not be punished?
Punishment is to show that person who committed rape or murder or whatever, that society does not and will not permit such blatant acts of cruelty; that if they want to live amongst the rest of us there are limits to our personal actions.
Sure, there is still a victim; but if the murderer is put to death himself, he isn't going to do it again, is he?
2007-07-23 09:52:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Prison is not about punishment. There is no torturing going on in there. It is about "removal from society". In order to protect us from further harm by them. There is no punishment to fit the crime because, as you pointed out, it does not fix anything.
Keep in mind though, that a criminal is a parasite. And to remove such a thing from it's host is, in it's eyes, torture.
2007-07-23 14:25:05 · answer #8 · answered by phil8656 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we can't the cherished object/person is still gone. We can't revive the dead through punishment nor can we retrieve the stolen. Thus punishment is redundant. Probably recuperation should be the focus.
2007-07-23 13:24:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't...(it doesn't even make ya' feel better...or deter others...go figure)
(now if I could only get my girlfriend to agree with that...)
2007-07-27 04:55:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋