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And so our whole policy discourse has shifted to pain and punishment, gratuitously.
It was only through pain and punishment that a small number could find the narrow gate to salvation.
Much like his namesake from the 50 Shades trilogy, the Australia defence coach, Nathan Grey, showed a fetish for pain and punishment during his playing career.
His onscreen notion of love (romantic love, and, by extension, the love of viewers) entails pain and punishment; he becomes the joke of his own butt.
With his husky frame and penetrating voice, Mr. Spence was a different kind of victim: an overgrown weakling who will do anything to avoid pain and punishment.
Until the precise moment referee Frank Sikora stepped in to end this slaughter, save La Motta from himself and raise Robinson's lethally gifted left hand aloft in victory, the Bull was still, inexplicably, moving forward as if inexorably drawn to physical pain and punishment.
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The OBT was primarily based on changing observable pain behaviours and included video feedback of expressions of pain as well as contingent positive reinforcement of pain-incompatible behaviours and punishment of pain behaviours in a group setting.
The effect of a pardon is not to quash the conviction but releases the recipient from "all pains, penalties and punishments whatsoever that from the said conviction may ensure".
The evidence for this is that our conduct is usually guided with a view to the pleasures and pains, rewards and punishments, of this life and not a future state (T, 1.3.9.14 / 115; cp. D, 12.13/220 01).
Pardons may eliminate the "pains, penalties and punishments" from a criminal conviction, though they do not remove convictions themselves.
Note that although the historical majority of these latter are the epigones of one or another religion, they also include the followers of such ideologies as Marxism and Stalinism – which are also all-embracing monolithic ownerships of the Great Truth to which everyone must sign up on pain of punishment, and on whose behalf their zealots are prepared to kill and die.
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