dlthomas comments on Open thread, November 2011 - Less Wrong
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I'm not sure that I agree. It may be necessary to punish more to keep a precommitment to punish credible. That precommitment may be preventing others from doing harm.
Fair enough. I'd lumped the effects of that sort of precommitment under "discouraging others from acting similarly", and accordingly discarded it.
Ah, I read it as a contrast. My bad.