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20233 | Punishment has distorted the pure innocence of the contingency of outcomes [Nietzsche] |
Full Idea: With this infamous art of interpreting the concept of punishment, people have robbed of its innocence the whole, pure contingency of events. | |
From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Dawn (Daybreak) [1881], 013) | |
A reaction: What a wonderfully subtle observation about moral luck! That whole problem is driven by the issue of whether the agent should be punished. When a chain of errors leads to disaster, we may see many innocent people doing a collective evil. |