This city is reward for all it will enable you to achieve and punishment for all the crimes it will force you to commit.
The form allows Whitehead to be rueful, wistful, epigrammatic ("This city is reward for all it will enable you to achieve and punishment for all the crimes it will force you to commit"), to run full tilt through a lifetime's worth of cruel observations -- every New Yorker carries around a slam book, at least mentally.
Their exemplary lives taught and encouraged the people to enter into a covenant with them so that social harmony could be achieved without punishment or coercion.
Even if the goods normally achieved by punishment are thereby achieved, is there not still some reason to want him to be punished?
It might of course turn out that answers to all these questions will flow from a single theoretical foundation for instance from a unitary consequentialist principle specifying the good that punishment should achieve, or from some version of the retributivist principle that the sole proper aim of punishment is to impose on the guilty the punitive burdens they deserve.
But if morality had such a status — if it made no demands that were independent of social sanction — then the only reason a person would have for being moral would be to avoid punishment and achieve reward.
These are equal opportunity weapons of mass destruction, only she is the one usually doling out the punishment to achieve the proper amount of distortion.
Tarcov argues that this suggests children can be considered rational only in that they respond to the desire to be treated as reasoning creatures and that they are "motivated only [by] rewards and punishments" to achieve that goal.
Unusually, this has been achieved not through punishment, but by the principle of Umuganda.
Heaven and Hell are taught to be spiritual states of nearness or distance from God that describe relationships in this world and the next, and not physical places of reward and punishment achieved after death.
