Re: The purpose of punishment
Good call on revenge (that's a BIG one, and imho closely related to justice), and restitution. Removal is also there, although it refers only to certain kinds of punishment.
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Correction is justice.
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Not necessarily. If someone murders someone else, it should seem just that he suffer accordingly in a prison. However, the most effective correctional method may be something like therapy or rehab or something that's not particularly brutal. If this is the case, then it might seem unjust that a murderer gets off with a few years of productive therapy, and it certainly doesn't satisfy the revenge desire.
However, we may hold different ideas of "justice." Personally, I hate the term.
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