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Jared Diamond has an interesting essay at the current issue of New Yorker, " Vengeance Is Ours ", that is worth considering. In the essay, Diamond not only describes the moral and political economy of cycles of personal and inter-tribal vengeance in one of the relatively stateless area of the...
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[quote user="Grant"] Well, as I see it there are three essential (and often overlapping) goals to any system of justice: Restitution, prevention, and vengeance . [/quote]... I'd add a more social one. A punishment can serve as a means of justifying, why not to do certain things. The absence...