And while it might appear an act of kindness to offer a 'trigger warning' before discussing a sensitive subject, it actually inflicts terribly cruelty to those it seeks to protect.
Until now, most of these have attracted little in the way of extra pay, and some have actively put off potential employers: the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a think-tank, calculates that low-level vocational qualifications actually inflict a pay cut of 5-20% on their holders, who are labelled as dummies.
Therefore, the practice of punishment, including creating liability to punishment, using sanctions as a threat and an incentive for compliance and actually inflicting the punishment where eligibility conditions are met, is justified.
To justify actually inflicting harsh treatment, it may be necessary to appeal to other explanations of (1) why harsh treatment is instrumentally valuable, and (2) why harsh treatment is consistent with respect for the wrongdoer.
On the contrary, when significant public costs exist (e.g. the expansion of public transport network) or when a costless policy actually inflicts extra-costs to citizens in the name of SM (e.g. the introduction of a large car-free area), it is necessary to evaluate the outcomes not in absolute terms, but in terms of costs or efforts.
I wonder: Are people who wish others will suffer any better than people who actually inflict the suffering?
But apparently, they are less concerned about being hit with objects that could actually inflict harm, such as bullets, since guns are still permitted in the building.
(It's debatable just how much damage trace amounts of it would actually inflict, but do you really want to rub car coolant on your face?).
He says that modern space travel is fundamentally different than what would be necessary to actually inflict an Alcubierre warp drive.
