Comment on Guilt: Another Gift Nobody Wants

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:37:32 GMT

Punishment only makes sense if the punisher and punished are different people.

The OP disagrees with you; it points out that self-punishment can be a good idea if you're doing it in front of other people, because it signals that you have genuine regret over your actions, and makes it seem less likely that you'll do something bad again because you're precommitted to punish yourself again if you did.

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