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...reformer's morality has always taught that the main objective of punishment is ulterior: to deter or rehabilitate. In this design, punishment should not do the one thing it says it will do-punish. It is not to make the criminal suffer, to make him feel the force of society's anger for his deed. It is surely not communal revenge...
...punishment should be punishment before it is anything else. If it does deter other potential criminals or rehabilitate the convicted, then that should be greeted as a pleasant surprise. The first business, without being bloodthirsty about it, is to keep society's contract with itself and punish a crime as it promised it would. Author C.S. Lewis has pointed out the totalitarian possibilities in treating criminals as sick people who need to be cured: "If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call...
...little ice with Trautwein. "The case is being tried; a man is charged with murder . . . You still say Myron Farber should be the judge," said Trautwein indignantly. All he was asking, the judge continued, was "to let us take a little peek." So impatient was Trautwein to punish Farber, 40, and the Times that he began handing down sentences before pronouncing them guilty. Realizing his mistake, Trautwein declared sheepishly, "I'm putting the cart before the horse." Then he slapped both the paper and the reporter with stiff coercive civil and punitive criminal contempt sentences: a fine...
...brought a growl from Moscow, as well as a bitter response from American businessmen, disgusted at their new role as Ping Pong balls in East-West diplomacy. It also highlighted the longstanding sharp differences of opinion within the Administration over the wisdom of using trade to pressure or punish the Communists...
Brzezinski's greeting is usually, "Hi, how's life?" His humor is impish; when he was displeased with one Western leader recently, he turned the official's picture to face his office wall and thus "punish him." He can be arrogant, but he tries to defuse touchy situations in public by making self-deprecating remarks. He opened one press conference by declaring, "I will try to respond as best I can or as badly as I will...