“Inflicting pain as retribution for wrongs is a horrible mistake: The person wronged and the person punished are one and the same.”

" My 8 Big Ideas https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286624424_My_8_Big_Ideas" (2011), p. 9

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American philosopher 1946

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