Severity is the wrong metric, how visceral the punishment seems more appropriate
Start doing public whippings − 40 lashes wil be much more deterrent than 2
I don’t think humans are great at really getting how bad 30 years of prison are, as you can kind of ignore most of the punishmemt, having real empathy (not sympathy)for decades of imprisonment is very difficult.
Humans can’t multiply, out of sight out of mind etc etc etc
Of course, what liberals really want is to not feel like they’re doing anything bad, which is why lashes are cruelty—because they empathize automatically and really get that there are real damages to humans.
Better dither about how long we don’t have to look at people for
Added for clarification: my use of liberals here refers to most of the modern world, perhaps especially anyone who is memetically borrowing from or descended from classical liberalism.
This is not intended as a dig at one side of the USA aisle, or any modern aisle, I believe this mindset is mostly in the modern water supply and is bi-partisan
Severity is the wrong metric, how visceral the punishment seems more appropriate
Start doing public whippings − 40 lashes wil be much more deterrent than 2
I don’t think humans are great at really getting how bad 30 years of prison are, as you can kind of ignore most of the punishmemt, having real empathy (not sympathy)for decades of imprisonment is very difficult.
Humans can’t multiply, out of sight out of mind etc etc etc
Of course, what liberals really want is to not feel like they’re doing anything bad, which is why lashes are cruelty—because they empathize automatically and really get that there are real damages to humans.
Better dither about how long we don’t have to look at people for
Added for clarification: my use of liberals here refers to most of the modern world, perhaps especially anyone who is memetically borrowing from or descended from classical liberalism.
This is not intended as a dig at one side of the USA aisle, or any modern aisle, I believe this mindset is mostly in the modern water supply and is bi-partisan
Strongly agree, made the same case here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rTveDBBavah4GHKxk/the-case-for-corporal-punishment