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punitiveness |
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punitiveness |
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One
foul deed deserves another.
Fight
evil by doing evil.
Positive
feedback is a concept at the edges of
easy human comprehension
Scapegoating
is an ancient tradition.
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Human
cultures convey their culture through storytelling: our folktales and myths
communicate culture by setting examples in which the listener can find
heros to be and villains to conquer.
Modern cultures do this through the magic of movies and television, nowadays enhanced by realistic animated computer images that invent anything the movie maker can imagine. For many decades, one of the most consistent themes in entertainment has been getting even. Beautiful damsels are plunged into dire distress, terrible human cruelties are created and committed, honest entrepeneurs are oppressed by evil blackguards. Then, along comes the hero. The Lone Ranger on a silver horse. The gruff private eye with his gun in an under-arm holster. Dirty Harry, "Make my day!" Most social psychologists of the 60's considered punitive morality to be sociopathic. |
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Punitiveness by its
nature runs roughshod over
Human rights
Civil rights
if
human rights and
civil rights are seen only as my rights
Society's fabric
is unraveled by egocentrism.
Humanity's fabric
is unraveled by ethnocentrism.
| "...I would write my hate on ice and wait for the sun to show." |
