It could be incapacitation. Incapacitation and deterrence are both “affecting the other’s behavior” in a sense, but the examples in the OP suggest you mean deterrence. (Meanwhile, PeteG’s sibling comment seems to only be considering ‘affecting behavior’ to mean incapacitation.)
(… maybe you’re reserving “punishment” to mean only deterrence and so saying, if A punishes B by killing them that’s by definition done to affect B’s behavior? I don’t understand what’s going on in this thread.)
Like I said, some people would punish by killing not to affect the behavior of the punished (neither to deter nor to incapacitate), but because they would see it as the morally right thing to do, given the crime.
Zack, you are mistaken about highlighting Nick’s sentence as “hitting the mark”.
Not everyone wants to kill with the intent of affecting the behavior of the punished, which in this case would be canceling all future behaviors. Some might want to punish by killing because they feel that is the proper response to the crime of the punished. Even if the punisher somehow knows that the one they are erasing will never behave that way again. Such people see certain behaviors as a permanent stain on a person’s life record and they believe the only correct punishment is to end them.
>A punishment is when one agent (the punisher) imposes costs on another (the punished) in order to affect the punished’s behavior.
If a person punishes another by subtracting the other’s life, this is not done to affect the other’s behavior.
Isn’t it, though?
It could be incapacitation. Incapacitation and deterrence are both “affecting the other’s behavior” in a sense, but the examples in the OP suggest you mean deterrence. (Meanwhile, PeteG’s sibling comment seems to only be considering ‘affecting behavior’ to mean incapacitation.)
(… maybe you’re reserving “punishment” to mean only deterrence and so saying, if A punishes B by killing them that’s by definition done to affect B’s behavior? I don’t understand what’s going on in this thread.)
Like I said, some people would punish by killing not to affect the behavior of the punished (neither to deter nor to incapacitate), but because they would see it as the morally right thing to do, given the crime.
Zack, you are mistaken about highlighting Nick’s sentence as “hitting the mark”.
Not everyone wants to kill with the intent of affecting the behavior of the punished, which in this case would be canceling all future behaviors. Some might want to punish by killing because they feel that is the proper response to the crime of the punished. Even if the punisher somehow knows that the one they are erasing will never behave that way again. Such people see certain behaviors as a permanent stain on a person’s life record and they believe the only correct punishment is to end them.