Ethics and Values / Unit 8 Ethics 373 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Question of Punishment
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The idea
The question of punishment: what entitles the state to do deliberately — confine, deprive, condemn — what would be wrong done to anyone else?
In practice
Lock a neighbor in your basement for his theft and you are the criminal. The state's different verdict needs a reason, not a habit.
Your place on the trail
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