PUNISHMENT — A SOCIO-POLITICAL INSTITUTION

A brief story of punishment

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One can state, with certainty, that punishment is a function of socio-political order. Punishment requires two things to exist as a system, a society, and a political system. I narrate an example to illustrate this hypothesis.

If only one person lives in a cave or forest, he or she is independent of any code of life that would be…