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Full Idea
We are forbidden to inflict punishment with any other design than for correction of the offender, or direction of others.
Gist of Idea
Punishment should only be for reform or deterrence
Source
Thomas Hobbes (Leviathan [1651], 1.15)
Book Ref
Hobbes,Thomas: 'Leviathan', ed/tr. Macpherson,C.B. [Penguin 1981], p.210