#punishment — Public Fediverse posts

Asian Games athletes face ideology drills

North Korea’s delegation enters during the opening ceremony of the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games at Hangzhou Olympic Sports…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #NorthKorea #Diplomacy #ideology #JAPAN #KimJongUn #punishment #Sports
https://www.europesays.com/korea/146503/

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

https://theconversation.com/why-criminal-justice-shouldnt-just-be-about-what-punishment-people-deserve-290393; https://theconversation.com/people-in-the-uk-favour-harsher-punishment-than-norwegians-belief-in-free-will-may-help-explain-why-286169; https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/16/6/868 (open access). "The more strongly someone believes in #free #will, the harsher the #punishment they favour for #criminals." This is quite logical: if you believe that a #criminal act results from a free #choice, then you will believe the #person making that choice should be punished for making it. Our criminal #justice #system is founded on #belief in free will - but what if that belief is false?

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

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

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

A quotation from John Adams

   We are to look upon it as more beneficial, that many guilty persons should escape unpunished, than one innocent person should suffer. The reason is, because it’s of more importance to community, that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt should be punished; for guilt and crimes are so frequent in the world, that all of them cannot be punished; and many times they happen in such a manner, that it is not of much consequence to the public, whether they are punished or not.
   But when innocence itself, is brought to the bar and condemned, especially to die, the subject will exclaim, it is immaterial to me, whether I behave well or ill; for virtue itself, is no security. And if such a sentiment as this, should take place in the mind of the subject, there would be an end to all security what so ever.

John Adams (1735–1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797–1801)
Speech (1770-12-03/04), Argument for the Defense, Boston Massacre Trial

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/15073/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #bostonmassacre #nothingtolose #civilrights #crime #criminal #exoneration #guilt #guilty #innocence #innocents #justice #lawandorder #moralhazard #protection #punishment #security #socialcontract #justicesystem

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/18/israel-plan-new-illegal-settlements-gaza-west-bank-occupied-palestine. The #Israeli #Government think they can carry on doing this in violation of the 4th #Geneva #Convention & #UNSC Resolution 242 because no-one is going to stop them, & because there'll be no #punishment for any of them - & they are right! International #law? WHAT #international law?

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.

@vfrmedia @EF @ChrisMayLA6 The problem with the theory of #deterrence, generally speaking, is that it doesn't work. It works for the law-abiding, like you & me, but not for the people it needs to work for - the #criminals. If it DID, our #jails would be empty, instead of full to bursting. #Prison works as #punishment, but not as a #deterrent. Some #prisoners can be #rehabilitated, but that needs effort.

Should the Links website put a blockade (boycott) on the US🇺🇸 regime as a punishment and visibility action for the alleged IMO organized murder attempt, abduction and torture of Czech citizen Martin Pavlata IMO by the US regime via the ICE organization?

https://blisty.cz/art/131557-nejezdete-do-usa.html

Soft blockade - skippable, symbolic boycott
Hard blockade - cannot be skipped, requires a VPN to bypass this boycott

This is meant just as a blockade on the Links website itself, no change to the Links program and is likely to be more symbolic than have a practical effect, because I assume most installations are done via package manager of the OS.

Please consider the fact that roughly 50% US voters voted for Trump.

#links2gang #links2 #twibright #twibrightlabs #blockade #boycott #us #usa #regime #trump #torture #murderattempt #crime #punishment #retaliation #activism

A quotation from Terry Pratchett

And Sergeant Colon once again knew a secret about bravery. It was arguably a kind of enhanced cowardice — the knowledge that while death may await you if you advance it will be a picnic compared to the certain living hell that awaits should you retreat.

Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 21, Jingo (1988)

More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8091…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #alternatives #bravery #costbenefit #courage #cowardice #danger #death #informeddecision #punishment #retreat #riskanalysis #riskassessment

A quotation from Charles Mackay

Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.

Charles Mackay (1814-1889) Scottish poet, journalist, song writer
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, “The South-Sea Bubble” (1841)

More info about this quote: wist.info/mackay-charles/79186…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #charlesmackay #downfall #gambling #inevitability #nation #nationalsecurity #punishment #risktaking

Thursday, September 18, 2025

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