91 - Locked to Wardens

[impure_tale]

Explain to me why it is that beatings are not a suitable punishment for Inmates.

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Private

[accountsettled.livejournal.com]

I'm torn often, I admit. I know for a fact that all the beatings I ever got in prison never taught me anything. I know I would not want to replicate the kind of punishment I, nor anyone I knew, faced. But that is a personal matter.

But otherwise, there are times and situations where I desperately get the feeling that accounts must be settled and there must be some form of...even handedness, and I know there are scenarios where I would use harsh and undue force to punish someone for their actions. To make them pay. The latter desire has not had cause to come up very often, and when it has done, I have tried to repress it for the sake of the principle of the former. So I understand the thought, but I cannot say I could accept it.

Private "Accounts must be settled" -- haha I see what u did thar

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

It's not a matter of making him pay. He's going to. It's a matter of consequences that matter to the individual.

Private it's where his username comes from, dammit! they say it a lot...

[accountsettled.livejournal.com]

Well, do you actually think he learnt anything from me punching him in the face? Or does he resent me more now than he did before? The consequence might have mattered more to him, but did it get anywhere? Probably not.

Violence is all he knows, I know. I...only knew violence as a means and a solution and just a way of existing for a very long time. But I didn't learn anything from martial punishment, I didn't learn anything from the violence I received in prison. That only taught me that violence is where the power lies.

I guess, the reasoning I would give for not using beatings as a punishment is that no matter how some would understand the consequences better than any other consequences, it serves little other purpose except punishment for the sake of punishment.