#punishment — Public Fediverse posts

Harsher punishments, a safer society? (source: https://www.eur.nl/en/news/harsher-punishments-safer-society)

Empirical studies have found that increasing the probability of punishment has a greater effect on crime than the severity of punishment (source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165176512004235).

#punishment #crime #justice #society #penalties #SpeedingFine #SpeedingTicket

Harsher punishments, a safer society? (source: https://www.eur.nl/en/news/harsher-punishments-safer-society)

Empirical studies have found that increasing the probability of punishment has a greater effect on crime than the severity of punishment (source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165176512004235).

#punishment #crime #justice #society #penalties #SpeedingFine #SpeedingTicket

Suspect in shooting at local fast food restaurant in custody https://www.diningandcooking.com/2750102/suspect-in-shooting-at-local-fast-food-restaurant-in-custody/ #arrest #background #Black #bondage #bracelet #Chain #closed #concept #conceptual #Control #crime #criminal #cuffs #custody #enforcement #food #guilt #guilty #hand #handcuff #handcuffs #iron #Jail #Justice #law #LEGAL #lock #metal #metallic #nobody #object #police #prison #prisoner #punishment #secure #security #shackles #Shadow #Sign #silver #single #Steel #stk25pf #suspect #symbol #theft #thief

KARMA-FREE TRUMP 💎

Donald Trump does not need to be hated in order to be seen clearly.

There is no need to imagine that #karma will #punish him.

No need to turn him into the #supernatural embodiment of #evil
No need to diagnose his soul.

His vanity, grievance, cruelty, #fear ,appetite, and enormous need for #attention are serious enough.

#Hatred does not improve our #perception.

It distorts it.

It makes the hated person larger, darker, and more #powerful in the #mind than they already are.

It also gives them permanent residence in the #nervous #system.

Trump should be opposed when he lies, harms, corrupts, intimidates, degrades institutions, or participates in or encourages cruelty.

That opposition can be #firm.

It should be relentless.

It can name exactly what is happening.

But hatred is not required.

Nor is #spiritual #fantasy.

No one knows what happens to Donald Trump after #death.

No one knows whether the #universe keeps a #punishment #ledger.

What is known, though, is that actions have consequences here.

People are harmed.

Truth is weakened.

Fear spreads.

#Cowardice becomes #contagious.

But cruelty does not have to set the terms.

#Kindness as strength can be encouraged in the face of cruelty.

#Courage in the face of intimidation.

#Truth in the face of deception.

#Decency in the face of degradation.

Restraint in the face of vengeance.

#Clarity in the face of confusion.

The task is not to hate the man.

The task is to see clearly, speak plainly, protect those being harmed, and refuse to let cruelty decide who we become.

#DonaldTrump #Trump #USPolitics #PoliticalClarity #Cruelty #Kindness #Courage #Truth #Decency #Restraint #Clarity #Nonviolence #NoHatred #MoralClarity #Humanity

A quotation from Robert Green Ingersoll

   Is it necessary that Heaven should borrow its light from the glare of Hell?
   Infinite punishment is infinite cruelty, endless injustice, immortal meanness. To worship an eternal gaoler hardens, debases, and pollutes even the vilest soul. While there is one sad and breaking heart in the universe, no good being can be perfectly happy.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New York

More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ingersoll #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #afterlife #Christianity #cruelty #damnation #divinejudgment #divinejustice #divinepunishment #divinewrath #eternity #God #heaven #hell #punishment #universalism

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

In this world we never will be perfectly civilized as long as a gallows casts its shadow upon the earth. As long as there is a penitentiary, within the walls of which a human being is immured, we are not a perfectly civilized people. We shall never be perfectly civilized until we do away with crime.
   And yet, according to this Christian religion, God is to have an eternal penitentiary; he is to be an everlasting jailer, an everlasting turnkey, a warden of an infinite dungeon, and he is going to keep prisoners there forever, not for the purpose of reforming them — because they are never going to get any better, only worse — but for the purpose of purposeless punishment. And for what? For something they failed to believe in this world. Born in ignorance, supported by poverty, caught in the snares of temptation, deformed by toil, stupefied by want — and yet held responsible through the countless ages of eternity! No man can think of a greater horror; no man can dream of a greater absurdity.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Lecture (1884-01-20), “Orthodoxy,” Tabor Opera House, Denver, Colorado

More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #afterlife #Christianity #civilization #crime #crimeandpunishment #criminal #damnation #divinejustice #divinepunishment #divinewrath #eternalpunishment #hell #jail #punishment

"Death Row Prisoners Granted Clemency by Biden Brace for Living Hell Under Trump.

Trump officials are imposing the harshest conditions in the entire federal prison system, including near total isolation":
https://boltsmag.org/death-row-clemency-adx-supermax/
#GhislaineMaxwell of #EpsteinFiles fame was sent to #ClubFed, but these convicts are being sent to much tougher prisons.
#politics #punishment #coverup

A quotation from Hugo, Victor:

«
It is characteristic of this form of punishment, inspired by all that is pitiless, that is to say brutalizing, that gradually, by a process of mindless erosion, it turns a man into an animal, sometimes a ferocious one.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/hugo-victor/73428/

#quote #quotes #quotation #abuse #brutality #brutalizing #callousness #dehumanization #penology #pitilessness #prison #punishment

#Cop #busted calling an #activist an #antigay #slur. Now he has to #pay. The #activist says the #punishment of 5 days without pay didn’t go far enough.

“How can the citizens of #Danbury trust that Iacobellis can #protectandserve with such #hateful and #homophobic #views”

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQIA #Connecticut #Police #Hate #Bigotry #Homophobia #Transphobia #NoPoliceAtPride

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/05/cop-busted-calling-an-activist-a-gay-slur-now-he-has-to-pay/