Has Justice been Served? [The Outcome] : post 8/9
In this post (8/9), we turn to a subject I originally intended to skip: Outcome ; what comes after Judgement, and before Repair. I wanted to skip it for several reasons. First, the subject is a little morbid. Who wants to spend time discussing the chopping off of hands, enslavement, imprisonment, bodily punishment, and execution, all performed in the name of Justice? Second, I assumed that Judgement and Repair would already cover punishment, both directly and indirectly. A separate post on Outcome seemed likely to repeat things we had already discussed. Third, Outcome appeared to be the least conceptually interesting part of the Justice mechanism. Once the Event had been Judged, the rest seemed almost mechanical: determine the sentence and carry it out. Outcome looked more like an administrative step than a philosophical problem. But an Outcome contains another Judgement of its own. It decides what the Actor deserves, what the Institution is trying to protect, what kind of suffering th...