Precommitment—you precommited to punish X to avoid X, hoping you will never have to execute the threat. I guess in this sense “punishment” as a word makes sense even for something that is never executed.
Social absolution—if somebody undergoes an official punishment, the people he encounters later may be more willing to integrate him into the group—without the official punishment there would be a neverending, unofficial exclusion
Hm, I would say Discouragement as you described is more generic: X happens and you want it to happen less, so you discourage it.
My idea was to underline the Discouragement taken to the extreme level. X can happen, and you don’t want it to ever happen. So you make a precommitment / ultimatum.
In this sense Discouragement is the effect of ongoing, regular punishment, Precommitment is the effect of punishment that might happen in the future.
But let’s not discuss the words too much- in your future post please organize and describe as you wish. Looking forward to reading those btw.
After reading it and some comments I also see:
Precommitment—you precommited to punish X to avoid X, hoping you will never have to execute the threat. I guess in this sense “punishment” as a word makes sense even for something that is never executed.
Social absolution—if somebody undergoes an official punishment, the people he encounters later may be more willing to integrate him into the group—without the official punishment there would be a neverending, unofficial exclusion
Thanks for your suggestions. Do you see precommitment as different to my Discouragement? If so where would the o be apply but not the other?
Hm, I would say Discouragement as you described is more generic: X happens and you want it to happen less, so you discourage it. My idea was to underline the Discouragement taken to the extreme level. X can happen, and you don’t want it to ever happen. So you make a precommitment / ultimatum. In this sense Discouragement is the effect of ongoing, regular punishment, Precommitment is the effect of punishment that might happen in the future. But let’s not discuss the words too much- in your future post please organize and describe as you wish. Looking forward to reading those btw.