The Importance of Punishment

If you get caught pillaging, they hang you or your fellow soldiers. Do you think they pillage? I say no. The result is that no one arrests him because they do not want to cause the death of a poor devil who is only trying to live. If instead we were only turned over to the guard to be put in chains and contempt of bread and water for one, two or three months,. Or put to work in at any of the labors that always have to be done in any army. Everyone would agree with this punishment and the officers of the patrols would arrest them by the hundreds. Soon there would be no pillages because everyone would join in putting it under control