Those who had breached UEFA's discredited 'behind closed doors' punishment quickly revealed themselves – roaring with delight at the sight of their team carving up the City defence after only 96 seconds.
Just this week, a New York Times probe into the state's prison system revealed systemic racism when it came to solitary confinement and other punishment, quickly prompting Governor Andrew Cuomo to launch an investigation of his own.
It is striking how pointless the laws against substance abuse generally are by the time they are introduced, how harsh the punishments quickly become, and how total is the switch to tolerance at the end.
When the first Quakers arrived in Boston in 1656 there were no laws yet enacted against them, but this quickly changed, and punishments were meted out with or without the law.
The guards then quickly moved to psychological punishment, though there was physical abuse, too.
The punishment resumed quickly, Earls scooping up a delightful grubber kick by Reddan, for a short-range score.
An organization with 1,000 employees in which senior management condoned the violation or if "tolerance of the offense by substantial authority personnel was pervasive" can quickly see the recommended punishment increase up to the statutory maximum.
Politics is often brutal, and parties that fail to diagnose and address their shortcomings quickly can expect more punishment.
Indeed Butler goes so far as to suggest that communal moral resentment and the justice it gives rise to is what separates us from the state of nature where each man is arbiter of his own punishment which quickly devolves into revenge (a point developed further in Six Sermons).
Its offense lies in a detail so obvious that even children quickly detect it: the punishment doesn't fit the crime.
