NancyLebovitz comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 6 - Less Wrong Discussion
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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.
This is what I meant by ‘revenge’, although wedifrid (in your comment's sibling) seems to have interpreted that differently.