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Topic: Punishment

While deterrence, rehabilitation, and “quarantine” can be useful outgrowths of the state’s punitive system, humanely-administered retribution (eye for eye) must be the ruling standard. Exceed that standard, and abuse occurs; neglect it, and indulgence subverts justice; surrender it to personal revenge, and punishment loses it biblical legitimacy.