NancyLebovitz comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 6 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 13 December 2010 09:42:39AM 4 points [-]

I'm pretty sure that one of the common purposes of punishment is to make the people who are imposing it feel better. This may or may not be a glitch by some utilitarian standards.

Comment author: TobyBartels 13 December 2010 02:42:13PM 1 point [-]

This is what I meant by ‘revenge’, although wedifrid (in your comment's sibling) seems to have interpreted that differently.