In a new paper, "The Responsibility Gap in Corporate Crime," I take up the problem of what I call the responsibility gap: the inability of conventional theories of criminal liability to easily, or even under strain, satisfy urges to deter or inflict retribution on corporate managers.
Backward-looking rationales normally focus on retribution, inflicting on the criminal harm comparable to the crime.
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.
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.
Global warming may seem like a distended morality tale playing out over several centuries and inflicting a kind of Old Testament retribution on the great-great-grandchildren of those responsible, since it was carbon burning in 18th-century England that lit the fuse of everything that has followed.
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.
Confidential eventually inflicted damage expensive enough to prompt retribution.
There are many levels on which this torture policy is troubling, from the potential retribution that may be inflicted on future American prisoners of war to the violation of international law.
