Ep. 92: Real Socialism Has Never Been Tried
Young Heretics
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The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment
In the fifties in england, lewis already was arguing that this new idea, which is supposedly humane, and that we never, we don't punish, we just cure. We just reform. We rehabilitate criminals. R you saing this sounds incredibly warm and generous, and it makes the old form of justice, retributive justice, make that sound darken and tribalist and superstitious. But he says that, in fact, what you're doing is your turning people from human citizens into blocks of wood or beasts. In this veiled religion, punishment is to be swept away and people are to be cured. The question is always, of course, who's
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