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"Codifying repression: an assessment of Iran's new penal code" by Human Rights Watch

[New York: Human Rights Watch, 2012]

http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/107268

#iran #humanrights #discrimination #punishment

Due to the US's increasing criminalisation of dissent, I've decided to shift this blog to being entirely about Buddhism and comparative religions and cultures, in which I have a BA and about 40 years of experience. This blog's archives have been updated accordingly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lKHypz4DtA

#us #usa #america #dissent #freedom #freespeech #censorship #crime #punishment #constitution #law

Due to the US's increasing criminalisation of dissent, I've decided to shift this blog to being entirely about Buddhism and comparative religions and cultures, in which I have a BA and about 40 years of experience. This blog's archives have been updated accordingly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lKHypz4DtA

#us #usa #america #dissent #freedom #freespeech #censorship #crime #punishment #constitution #law

AND SO IT GOES ...

#news #opinion #satire #irony #errtling #bookcafe #world-according-to-hoyle #art-of-review #art #writing #philosophy #law #gov #culture #humanity #politics #religion #economics #paranormal-things #war #peace #crime #punishment

amyctserrat.substack.com/p/the-world-...

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO HOYLE

AND SO IT GOES ...

#news #opinion #satire #irony #errtling #bookcafe #world-according-to-hoyle #art-of-review #art #writing #philosophy #law #gov #culture #humanity #politics #religion #economics #paranormal-things #war #peace #crime #punishment

amyctserrat.substack.com/p/the-world-...

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO HOYLE

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 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

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

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

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

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

Cock spanked caboose 👅
🔥😈🔥

#nsfw #spanked #punishment #painslut #selfie #tease #hotasfuck #daddylikes #amateur #porn #sexy #naughty #erotic #horny #playful #thicc #pawg #princess #babe #fuckdoll #wifeymaterial #nude #yummy #ass #desire #tushytuesday #follow

A quotation from Euripides

JASON: The curse of children’s blood be on you!
   Avenging Justice, blast your being!
MEDEA: What god will hear your imprecation,
   Oath-breaker, guest-deceiver, liar?
 
[ἸΆΣΩΝ: ἀλλά σ᾽ Ἐρινὺς ὀλέσειε τέκνων
   φονία τε Δίκη.
ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: τίς δὲ κλύει σοῦ θεὸς ἢ δαίμων,
   τοῦ ψευδόρκου καὶ ξειναπάτου;]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 1389ff (431 BC) [tr. Vellacott (1963)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/85172/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #medea #argument #bickering #curse #deprecation #dishonesty #dishonor #divineanger #divineretribution #divinewrath #dvinepunishment #gods #hospitality #punishment #reputation #unworthiness #vengeance

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

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 Homer

The recklessness of their ways destroyed them all.
 
[Αὐτῶν γὰρ σφετέρῃσιν ἀτασθαλίῃσιν ὄλοντο.]

Homer (fl. 7th-8th C. BC) Greek author
The Odyssey [Ὀδύσσεια], Book 1, l. 7ff (1.7) (c. 700 BC) [tr. Fagles (1996)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/homer/46491/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #homer #odyssey #consequence #death #destruction #divinejudgment #folly #incaution #punishment #recklessness

In the US, prisoners are often charged room and board in prison, whilst also being pressed to work for little or no money, meaning they come out in debt, making them either be indentured to a job (which is hard to find with a criminal record) or return to a life of crime.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/24/trump-tariffs-forced-labor-us-prisons

#usa #us #america #prison #jail #labor #labour #forcedlabor #forcedlabour #coercion #slavery #money #debt #crime #punishment #rehab #rehabilitation

In the US, prisoners are often charged room and board in prison, whilst also being pressed to work for little or no money, meaning they come out in debt, making them either be indentured to a job (which is hard to find with a criminal record) or return to a life of crime.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/24/trump-tariffs-forced-labor-us-prisons

#usa #us #america #prison #jail #labor #labour #forcedlabor #forcedlabour #coercion #slavery #money #debt #crime #punishment #rehab #rehabilitation

#punishment : the act of punishing

- French: punition

- German: die Strafe

- Italian: punizione

- Portuguese: punição

- Spanish: castigo

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Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/form

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/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?

A quotation from Ingersoll

The God of Hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A God who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not loved — cursed, not worshiped. A heaven presided over by such a God must be below the lowest hell. I want no part in any heaven in which the saved, the ransomed and redeemed will drown with shouts of joy the cries and sobs of hell — in which happiness will forget misery, where the tears of the lost only increase laughter and double bliss.

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 #christianity #afterlife #divinejustice #divinepunishment #divinewrath #eternity #God #heaven #hell #punishment #worship

Political cartoon by Ward Sutton, WE'VE COME SO FAR!
1926 NYC flag:
"A man was lynched yesterday"
2026 NYC flag:
"A man was murdered by ICE yesterday"
.
#fascist #USA #GOP #KKK #DEI #diversity #equity #inclusion #WhiteSupremacy #OurPutin #fascism #immigration #policy #ChristianNationalism #AmericaFirst #deportation #border #amnesty #ICE #DHS #federal #immunity #prosecute #trial #judge #jury #accountability #punishment #jail

Political cartoon by Ward Sutton, WE'VE COME SO FAR!
1926 NYC flag:
"A man was lynched yesterday"
2026 NYC flag:
"A man was murdered by ICE yesterday"
.
#fascist #USA #GOP #KKK #DEI #diversity #equity #inclusion #WhiteSupremacy #OurPutin #fascism #immigration #policy #ChristianNationalism #AmericaFirst #deportation #border #amnesty #ICE #DHS #federal #immunity #prosecute #trial #judge #jury #accountability #punishment #jail

"Some governments are lowering the age of criminal responsibility. That may backfire"

https://www.economist.com/international/2026/07/09/child-suspects-are-being-prosecuted-at-younger-ages?giftId=MzUwYzIwOTEtMWI1Ni00MzJiLTk1MGYtN2VlZWQ1NmMzZDYw&utm_campaign=gifted_article

"The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child recommends a MACR of at least 14" (minimum age of criminal responsibility)

"In 1998 Tony Blair’s Labour government abolished a common-law presumption—which prosecutors had to rebut—that children aged 10-13 are doli incapax, or incapable of wrongdoing."

#crime #punishment #politics #law #justice

"Some governments are lowering the age of criminal responsibility. That may backfire"

https://www.economist.com/international/2026/07/09/child-suspects-are-being-prosecuted-at-younger-ages?giftId=MzUwYzIwOTEtMWI1Ni00MzJiLTk1MGYtN2VlZWQ1NmMzZDYw&utm_campaign=gifted_article

"The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child recommends a MACR of at least 14" (minimum age of criminal responsibility)

"In 1998 Tony Blair’s Labour government abolished a common-law presumption—which prosecutors had to rebut—that children aged 10-13 are doli incapax, or incapable of wrongdoing."

#crime #punishment #politics #law #justice

Politicians are listening to voters angry about dramatic and well-publicised crimes—and you can understand why. Indonesians were horrified when a 12-year-old stabbed her mother 26 times, killing her. In Colombia a 15-year-old boy last year shot and killed a senator campaigning to be president. In Sweden and elsewhere, gangs use children to attack properties or people.
#legal #crime #punishment #sociology #criminology #police #justice #Fairness
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/07/09/who-is-capable-of-evil

Politicians are listening to voters angry about dramatic and well-publicised crimes—and you can understand why. Indonesians were horrified when a 12-year-old stabbed her mother 26 times, killing her. In Colombia a 15-year-old boy last year shot and killed a senator campaigning to be president. In Sweden and elsewhere, gangs use children to attack properties or people.
#legal #crime #punishment #sociology #criminology #police #justice #Fairness
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/07/09/who-is-capable-of-evil

Hell is often depicted as a place of punishment in various religions. It is frequently described as fiery and eternal. Cultural interpretations vary across history and literature

#afterlife #punishment #religion #mythology #literature

Hell is often depicted as a place of punishment in various religions. It is frequently described as fiery and eternal. Cultural interpretations vary across history and literature

#afterlife #punishment #religion #mythology #literature

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

Whoever that E.S. character was just sent her into one hell of a trap. Sure, she got to see that Santa was indeed real... perhaps a little too real right now! 

https://subscribestar.adult/pyperhaylie
https://naughtynewsroom.carrd.co/
#bondage #Oc #santa #elf #spanking #paddle #spank #punishment #punish #reddened #dollification #noir #redhead

Whoever that E.S. character was just sent her into one hell of a trap. Sure, she got to see that Santa was indeed real... perhaps a little too real right now! 

https://subscribestar.adult/pyperhaylie
https://naughtynewsroom.carrd.co/
#bondage #Oc #santa #elf #spanking #paddle #spank #punishment #punish #reddened #dollification #noir #redhead

Barnum's shadow

https://social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc44-346a-4a6e-ac02-393031666322

Barnum's shadow

https://social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc44-346a-4a6e-ac02-393031666322

SHAME IS LEARNED

Shame is body-identification with a whip in its hand.

The body eats, shits, sweats, smells, wants, ages, leaks, trembles, hungers, and dies.

None of this is guilt.

It is just mammal life.

But the mind learns to look at the body through other people’s fear.

A look.
A tone.
A punishment.
A withdrawal of love.

Then the body becomes evidence.

“Something is wrong with me.”

That is the error.

Guilt may say, “I did something wrong.”

Shame says, “I am wrong.”

Mind training begins here:

Do not attack the body for being a body.

Do not worship it either.

Just stop accusing it.

The body is innocent.

It is an instrument.

It needs breath, warmth, food, washing, rest, and kindness.

Shame says, “Hide this.”

Kindness says, “Meet this.”

That is the whole turn.

#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #identification #mammal #guilt #people #tone #punishment #love #error #Shame #Mind #body #wrong #worship #innocent #instrument #Kindness #canadaday

SHAME IS LEARNED

Shame is body-identification with a whip in its hand.

The body eats, shits, sweats, smells, wants, ages, leaks, trembles, hungers, and dies.

None of this is guilt.

It is just mammal life.

But the mind learns to look at the body through other people’s fear.

A look.
A tone.
A punishment.
A withdrawal of love.

Then the body becomes evidence.

“Something is wrong with me.”

That is the error.

Guilt may say, “I did something wrong.”

Shame says, “I am wrong.”

Mind training begins here:

Do not attack the body for being a body.

Do not worship it either.

Just stop accusing it.

The body is innocent.

It is an instrument.

It needs breath, warmth, food, washing, rest, and kindness.

Shame says, “Hide this.”

Kindness says, “Meet this.”

That is the whole turn.

#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #identification #mammal #guilt #people #tone #punishment #love #error #Shame #Mind #body #wrong #worship #innocent #instrument #Kindness #canadaday

https://www.walknews.com/1334307/ ロシアの「好ましからざる団体」指定が急増、スイス拠点の組織も – SWI swissinfo.ch #article #BeatForeignAffairs #BeatInternationalGeneva #BeatSwissDiplomacy #ForeignAffairs #Multi #Politics #ProductionTypeAdaptation #punishment #Russia #Society #trials #UserNeedExplainItToMe #ロシア

https://www.wacoca.com/news/2874106/ ロシアの「好ましからざる団体」指定が急増、スイス拠点の組織も – SWI swissinfo.ch #Article #BeatForeignAffairs #BeatInternationalGeneva #BeatSwissDiplomacy #ForeignAffairs #multi #politics #ProductionTypeAdaptation #Punishment #Russia #society #trials #UserNeedExplainItToMe #ロシア

"At least it ain't me!"

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2156166/at-least-it-ain-t-me

"At least it ain't me!"

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2156166/at-least-it-ain-t-me

"At least it ain't me!"

https://piefed.social/c/roughromanmemes/p/2156165/at-least-it-ain-t-me

"At least it ain't me!"

...If people actually don't have free will, punishing a natural machine which couldn't be otherwise makes no sense. Harmful people should be removed from society, for society's protection, but not punished, driven into debt, etc.

#society #freedom #freewill #choice #behaviour #nature #einstein #biology #buddhism #complexsystem #complexadaptivesystem #determinism #causality #crime #punishment #prison

...If people actually don't have free will, punishing a natural machine which couldn't be otherwise makes no sense. Harmful people should be removed from society, for society's protection, but not punished, driven into debt, etc.

#society #freedom #freewill #choice #behaviour #nature #einstein #biology #buddhism #complexsystem #complexadaptivesystem #determinism #causality #crime #punishment #prison

Retributive justice is a euphemism for vengeance by proxy: On Nozick's Retribution–Revenge Distinction

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/vengeance-with-better-manners-on

I started a piece on the self, and I hit a speed bump that I wanted to respond to separately from my main essay.

#substack #philosophy #nozick #justice #law #retribution #vengeance #punishment #language #freewill #blog

Retributive justice is a euphemism for vengeance by proxy: On Nozick's Retribution–Revenge Distinction

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/vengeance-with-better-manners-on

I started a piece on the self, and I hit a speed bump that I wanted to respond to separately from my main essay.

#substack #philosophy #nozick #justice #law #retribution #vengeance #punishment #language #freewill #blog

A quotation from Twain

Custom is custom; it is built of brass, boiler iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Essay (1906), “The Gorky Incident,” Letters from the Earth (c. 1909; pub. 1962) [ed. DeVoto (1939)]

More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/84429/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #twain #thegorkyincident #argument #custom #irrationality #law #morality #penalty #publicmorals #publicopinion #punishment #scandal #socialconventions #taboo #tradition

A quotation from Twain

Custom is custom; it is built of brass, boiler iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Essay (1906), “The Gorky Incident,” Letters from the Earth (c. 1909; pub. 1962) [ed. DeVoto (1939)]

More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/84429/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #twain #thegorkyincident #argument #custom #irrationality #law #morality #penalty #publicmorals #publicopinion #punishment #scandal #socialconventions #taboo #tradition

Punishment asks what should happen to the offender.
Morality asks what should happen to the relationship, the harm, and the future.

#philosophy
#morality
#punishment

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.