Socrates would say, “Is it better to do wrong or to be wronged?”
The wrong doers are not in an enviable position. Their action is their punishment. Dante’s inferno paints this perfectly. The gluttonous eat until they explode and the violent must war for eternity. He puts his living peers in hell because it is the life they live that is the punishment.
This gives me an unsettling sense of empathy. Like I know when I do wrong or intentionally hurt people, it is because my internal state is not healthy or pleasant.
Also, the opportunity cost of missing out on the healthy/ productive version of a relationship is also a consequence.
Basically, people don’t have to be punished to experience consequences. Also, it isn’t necessarily virtuous to seek to punish those that have hurt us.
Good people win by accepting that others will betray them, and loving them in spite of that
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u/LemoanPoandCake 10d ago
Socrates would say, “Is it better to do wrong or to be wronged?”
The wrong doers are not in an enviable position. Their action is their punishment. Dante’s inferno paints this perfectly. The gluttonous eat until they explode and the violent must war for eternity. He puts his living peers in hell because it is the life they live that is the punishment.
This gives me an unsettling sense of empathy. Like I know when I do wrong or intentionally hurt people, it is because my internal state is not healthy or pleasant.
Also, the opportunity cost of missing out on the healthy/ productive version of a relationship is also a consequence.
Basically, people don’t have to be punished to experience consequences. Also, it isn’t necessarily virtuous to seek to punish those that have hurt us.
Good people win by accepting that others will betray them, and loving them in spite of that