#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

Nine youths criticized for foreign videos https://www.byteseu.com/2354548/ #Chongjin #Conflicts #crackdowns #ForeignContent #MinistryOfSocialSecurity #NorthHamgyongProvince #NorthKorea #Punishment #SouthKoreanCulture #surveillance #youth

Nine youths criticized for foreign videos

FILE PHOTO: A scene from Chongjin, North Hamgyong Province. (Daily NK) North Korean authorities in Chongjin, North Hamgyong…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #NorthKorea #chongjin #crackdowns #foreigncontent #ministryofsocialsecurity #northhamgyongprovince #punishment #southkoreanculture #surveillance #youth
https://www.europesays.com/korea/150163/

1077 • Nothing beats a good beating

#femdom #violentfemdom #ballbusting #cbt #cruelfemdom #shoelicking #shoecleaningslave #cruelmistress #punishment #femaledominance #femaledomination

1077 • Nothing beats a good beating

#femdom #violentfemdom #ballbusting #cbt #cruelfemdom #shoelicking #shoecleaningslave #cruelmistress #punishment #femaledominance #femaledomination

Ass Brunette Dad Daughter Punishment Porn GIF by myaltme

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Stop the #UK #fines racket

Volunteer in #Nottingham #fined for leaving 1 kale leaf in shopping #trolley

She was fined by #privatised enforcement agent contracted by #council, who was incentivised to issue as many fines as possible

- This shouldn’t happen any more

New #Defra guidance clearly bans ‘pay per #fine’ incentivised #punishment

But #councils are so far ignoring this guidance, which has not been publicised

https://freedomineverydaylife.org/fundraiser-help-us-stop-the-fines-racket-2/

#profits #greed #hostile #capitalism

M.73.5.581h: (Not able to provide a translation) (19th century), from LACMA M.73.5.581.

Source: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/383106b7-d47f-43da-b4ff-1f9fcd86a917

#islam #serpentine #hell #punishment #afterlife #sufism #drawing #manuscript #art #publicdomain

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

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

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #afterlife #Christianity #cruelty #divinejudgment #divinejustice #divinepunishment #eternalpunishment #eternity #heaven #hell #injustice #punishment

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

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/jun/11/children-hit-by-parents-more-likely-to-bully-others-research-finds; https://www.ucl.ac.uk/population-health-sciences/research-projects/2023/jan/physical-punishment-and-child-outcomes-uk-mixed-methods-study. "Children #smacked by their #parents struggle to get good #exam #results & are more likely to #bully others, causing a negative impact on #society, according to new #research calling for #smacking to be #banned... The #study... also found that #teenagers experiencing #physical #punishment in early #childhood were markedly more likely to bully #siblings & others or engage in #cyberbullying." See also: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/25/smacking-child-england-northern-ireland-adults-violence.

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

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Government bureaucracies need occasional overhaul and rejuvenation.

Trump’s motivation is more about #punishment and #retribution.

His Cabinet choices point to that.

At the Justice Department, he is prepared to fire the team that worked with special counsel Jack Smith on two indictments of the president-elect.

More broadly, he looks to dismantle what he regards as an unresponsive and oppositional administrative state.

Experts say what Trump, Musk and Ramaswamy are talking about
— both in terms of money saved and workforce reductions
— is unrealistic and that they will soon bump into political and economic realities that will leave them far short of what they claim.

That doesn’t mean, however, that at the outset the president-elect should not be taken seriously about how #disruptive he will try to be in his efforts.

Musk has claimed he can cut the budget by roughly $2 trillion,
but analysts say that would require drastic (and unpopular) cuts in entitlements programs, defense or other vital services.

#Elaine #Kamarck of the Brookings Institution, who oversaw Gore’s reinventing government initiative, offered counsel to the incoming administration in a piece on the Brookings website entitled,
“Cut the government with a scalpel, not an axe.”

That was the approach taken during the Clinton administration, which resulted in the elimination of 640,000 pages of internal agency rules
and a reduction in the federal workforce of 426,000 employees.

Kamarck, however, questioned whether the federal bureaucracy is truly bloated,
as Ramaswamy and the Trump team claim.

There are, she noted about 19,000 Border Patrol agents.

How many of those would Trump cut while still making good on his promise to secure the border and deport millions?

There are about 1,800 air traffic controllers, she said. Would Trump’s team cut that workforce significantly, causing potential flight cancellations and disruption?

“It will take about a week and Congress will say, ‘Hey, you can’t do this,’” she said.

And how deeply would he try to cut the workforce at the Social Security Administration,
at the risk of checks not being sent out promptly or other breakdowns in a program that he has otherwise vowed not to touch?

Kamarck offered other examples of where the Trump team could produce only symbolic victories.

Trump has targeted the Department of Education for elimination.

Kamarck said the department could be eliminated but two key programs likely would remain
— the student loan program and Title 1,
which adds to state and local governments for low-achieving students in areas of higher poverty.

The student loan program could be shifted to the Treasury Department
and Title 1 to the Department of Health and Human Services, she said,
which means a portion of its budget would be shifted rather than cut.

Its workforce is the smallest of any Cabinet agency.

Kamarck’s point is that after programs are shifted, the money saved might not be significant and the number of workers eliminated would be tiny.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/24/doge-trump-musk-ramaswamy-budget/