Chapter 27 Chapter 02 "Guilty", "Conscience Condemnation" and Others (10)

If a commune grows stronger, it no longer regards the transgressions of individual individuals so seriously; transgressions are no longer as threatening to the existence of the whole as they were in the past; Driven out of the commune as a "restless man" again, the public no longer takes it out on him with the restraint it once did--indeed the whole has since then carefully defended the maker of misfortune and protected him from Hurt by anger, especially the anger of the immediate victim.Efforts to temper the anger of the immediate victims of the violation, with the aim of limiting the development of events and preventing wider or even full-blown participation and rioting; attempting to find equivalents by which to regulate the entire deal; especially increasing firmness demand some degree of satisfaction for any wrongdoing, at least some degree of separation of the criminal from his crime--all these actions have been engraved with increasing prominence in the long development of the rules of punishment. Mark of.As a commune grows in power and self-awareness, its punishment rules become milder.Any weakening and deliberate violation of this punishment rule will lead to harsher punishment again. The richer the "creditor" becomes, the more human he becomes correspondingly, until at last the amount of wealth he possesses is such that he can no longer afford losses.The sense of power in society is also taken into consideration, because it enables society to enjoy the highest luxury available to it, viz., that it does not punish its wrongdoers. "What have the parasites in me really got to do with me? Then let them talk! Let them live and reproduce! I'm still strong enough to be unaffected!  … By turning a blind eye to loss, By allowing those who cannot afford to pay to escape”, the sense of justice that advocated “all things can be paid, everything must be paid” disappears—like all good things in the world, the disappearance of this justice is a kind of self-ablation.We know what a beautiful name this self-abandonment of justice has given itself—it is called "forgiveness"; it is obvious that forgiveness has become the prerogative of the most powerful, or rather, has become the other side of his rights .