The thought of you comparing yourself to Mr Dacry is...interesting....:P
Oh, he was always a role model, I assure you. A bit of an idiot at times, but a definite role model. Though I did like Captain Wentworth better.
I can see how the Orwellian school of thought can be tempting, but this seems a bit fallible to me - like punishing rape by castration, and assuming that that will prevent any further offences. Psychology is a slippery sort of thing, and I can't help but think it'd keep twisting out from under conditioning one way or another.
And while I appreciate the suffering-and-revenge principle intellectually, I'm not sure I can get any closer to it than that. I just want to make sure they don't do it again.
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Oh, he was always a role model, I assure you. A bit of an idiot at times, but a definite role model. Though I did like Captain Wentworth better.
I can see how the Orwellian school of thought can be tempting, but this seems a bit fallible to me - like punishing rape by castration, and assuming that that will prevent any further offences. Psychology is a slippery sort of thing, and I can't help but think it'd keep twisting out from under conditioning one way or another.
And while I appreciate the suffering-and-revenge principle intellectually, I'm not sure I can get any closer to it than that. I just want to make sure they don't do it again.