An obvious solution is deferring to non-punitive orders such as behavioral and rehabilitative programs focusing on emotional health and discipline will allow us to address a bigger issue.
If the racial hierarchy put in place by the colonial state was unacceptable – and all fully postcolonial states enshrine this unacceptability in their very being – then so too is its outdated and punitive sexual order.
Assistant general secretary Harry Fletcher said: "The more punitive the order is made by government, the higher the breach rate".
The award against the company, the GEO Group Inc., formerly named Wackenhut, is among the largest punitive damages ordered against a private prison company.
And over the past decade, an ugly pattern of so-called honor killings and punitive rapes ordered by various community councils has emerged, as the Indian Supreme Court recently noted with alarm.
Shouldn't Greenpeace et al. be going after Exxon Mobil, which still tries to sow public skepticism toward global warming theories and has reportedly worked behind the scenes to remove a prominent scientist from the United Nations climate change panel and still refuses to pay $5 billion in punitive damages ordered by an Alaska court after the 1989 Valdez oil spill?
Ecuador's Supreme Court recently upheld the verdict, but cut the damages to $9.5 billion, a figure which would allow for environmental remediation, provision of health care and clean water, and cultural restoration, but removed the punitive damages ordered by the lower courts.
Of course, exemplary and punitive damages in order to discourage conduct inimical to society do exist in the statute books.
Identifying during childhood with the punitive power, in order to escape the painful experience of being the one punished, and in order to fit into the harsh world, a person must live a lie -- I am not the Sinner but the agent of the Angry God holding that sinner over the fire -- and find outside himself a scapegoat onto whom to project the parts of the self that he has felt compelled to deny.
Now the Revolution's leaders were preempting this punitive will in order to control it: they conceived of terror as rational rather than emotional and as organized rather than instinctive.
