In the end, perhaps Tarantino sought to make us all want to be Django and Dr. Schultz -- to inflict justice and retribution upon the purveyors of that loathsome, nightmarish endeavor.
Backward-looking rationales normally focus on retribution, inflicting on the criminal harm comparable to the crime.
Violence directly causes harm and suffering to sentient beings, pollutes the minds of those who use it, and creates cycles of hatred and retribution that can inflict terrible damage, both physical and psychological.
Until then, it was argued, resistance fighters could inflict little real damage on the occupiers, whose fearsome retributions would do real and lasting harm to the Serb nation.
Here in Sao Paulo, in climatic conditions perfect for England, he rose to inflict a punishment he later ludicrously claimed was a form of retribution for supposedly harsh criticism of his behaviour at Liverpool.
According to the Economist, the reason for this is the "risks of retribution being inflicted on Gaddafi loyalists" in a rebel advance.
We know, or at least ought to know by now, that harm inflicted upon innocents as retribution for other harmed innocents is bad mathematics.
Uprisings are said to be in the offing in towns such as Zawiya and Zliten, still closer to the capital.The hope among Western governments is that the rebels will not capture Tripoli after a headlong advance from the east, with the attendant risks of retribution being inflicted on Qaddafi loyalists en route.
The Economist magazine, for example, says Nato powers hope "the rebels will not capture Tripoli after a headlong advance from the east", apparently because of the "risks of retribution being inflicted on Gaddafi loyalists" in a rebel advance.
Now advocates of restorative justice often contrast it with 'retributive' justice, and argue that we should look for restoration rather than retribution or punishment, and seek to repair harms caused rather than to inflict punitive suffering for wrongs done.
Humans inflict it; the world inflicts it.
