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To: Lane3 who wrote (15494)	6/25/2002 10:26:15 PM
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My beef is with the notion that retribution and punishment are not only the the most useful and valid basis for dealing with crime in a society but the only one. I just started reading, and am impressed with your effort to postulate an alternative, and humane, and possibly more effective, paradigm; but the phrase "crime in a society" struck me as suggesting certain questions. Societies are different, and have within them differing elements. "Social opprobrium" may be a deterrent in one society, or subsection of the society, and not much of one in another. For example, the opprobrium of the majority may itself be a badge of honor or sympathy-magnet to a minority. It's a complicated dynamic, and would require intelligence to design the opprobrium scenario so that the object of it wasn't protected from the negative reinforcement which disapproval should provide by a hostile and dysfunctional (from the standpoint of the larger community trying to discourage certain antisocial behaviors) support network.

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