Full Idea
With this infamous art of interpreting the concept of punishment, people have robbed of its innocence the whole, pure contingency of events.
Gist of Idea
Punishment has distorted the pure innocence of the contingency of outcomes
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Dawn (Daybreak) [1881], 013)
Book Reference
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Dawn (Daybreak) (v 5)', ed/tr. Smith, Brittain [Stanford 2011], p.14
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.
Related Idea
Idea 20232 Get rid of the idea of punishment! It is a noxious weed! [Nietzsche]