For example: Which individual would you prefer — someone who rewarded good guys and punished bad guys or someone who punished good guys and rewarded bad guys?
People must believe that, in the end, the system will reward the good guys and punish the bad, or else they may lose faith and begin "doing the wrong thing," to flip the mayor's praise.
But there is a Wall Street corollary that might be even more pernicious: good guys are punished.
The writer, David Benioff, and the director, Wolfgang Petersen, may have made some unfortunate choices — they compressed and changed elements in the story, making it morally conventional (the bad guys get punished) in a way that the Iliad isn't, and they never found a comfortable language for their heroes to speak.
The bad guys get punished for their bad acts and we don't see it -- any of it -- as part of the serious societal issue it really has been.
Studded with vivid character sketches and evocative descriptions of the American landscape, journalist Judy Pasternak's scarifying account of uranium mining's disastrous consequences often reads like a novel — though you will wish that the bad guys got punished as effectively as they do in commercial fiction.
We've got to punish guys.
We're only starting to come to terms with this point as we punish guys who risk their character, reputation, the integrity of the game, and even their own lives doing underhanded things, like taking performance-enhancing drugs, to play games better.
In the original script, Kirk forgives Ericssen and offers him and his people a chance at a fresh start something that remained in the final episode but the character committing murder would have precluded such an ending, as NBC censors would have necessitated the "bad guy" be punished for his actions.
Guys like Brian Habana - the quickest guy in rugby - will punish you.
