Instead of raising the victim back up — to balance the scales of Lady Justice, so to speak — it seeks to drag the criminal down to the victim’s diminished level.
~*~
Cross-posted at Is-Ought GAP.
Aphoristic Observation: Retributive Punishment Is to Restorative Justice as Egalitarianism Is to Equality
By
Geoffrey Allan Plauché
/ October 22, 2010
About The Author
Geoffrey Allan Plauché
Geoffrey is an Aristotelian-Libertarian political philosopher, an adjunct instructor for Buena Vista University, the founder of the Libertarian Fiction Authors Association, the founder and executive editor of Prometheus Unbound: A Libertarian Review of Fiction and Literature, and the webmaster of The Libertarian Standard. His work has appeared in Libertarian Papers, the Journal of Libertarian Studies, the Journal of Value Inquiry, and Transformers and Philosophy. He lives in Edgewood, KY with his wife and two children.
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