You would be harming another human being without expecting any benefit from doing so. Punishment is only justified when it prevents more harm than it causes, and this is specified not to be the case.
Our sense that people ‘deserve’ to be punished is often adaptive, in that it prevents further wrongdoing, but in this case it is purely negative.
No.
You would be harming another human being without expecting any benefit from doing so. Punishment is only justified when it prevents more harm than it causes, and this is specified not to be the case.
Our sense that people ‘deserve’ to be punished is often adaptive, in that it prevents further wrongdoing, but in this case it is purely negative.
What about the schadenfreude fom pissing off Hitler?
Of course, he might become even more psycho from it.
That would count as an effect on his future actions.
The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna shouldn’t have rejected Hitler!