Punishment is a
notion that humankind gradually outgrows.
A person has done
evil, so another person, or a group of people, in order to fight this evil,
cannot think of anything better than to create another evil, which they call
punishment.
Every punishment is based
not on logic or on the feeling of justice, but on the desire to wish evil on
those who have done evil to you or to another person.
Capital punishment
is a very clear proof that our society’s organization is far from being a
Christian one.
Everything about our
present system of punishments and about all criminal law will be thought of by
future generations in the same way that we think of cannibalism or human
sacrifice to ancient pagan gods. “How did they not see the uselessness and
cruelty of those things which they did?” our descendants will say about us.
To punish others is
like putting more wood in the fire. Every crime already has punishment in
itself and it is more cruel and more just than the punishment created by
people.
We should remember
that the desire to punish is part of a very low animal feeling which should be suppressed,
and which should not be a part of our reality.
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