Posted January 8, 2004 
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Comments(0) Are emotions moral? by F. H. Buckley
“We do not punish because the wrongdoer treated others as means and not ends, or because he has negative net-present value on some utilitarian calculus. Abstract theories of justice dull us to the difference between the criminal and his victim and cannot compensate us for the economic and psychic costs of punishing a wrongdoer. We need something more, something provided only by the emotional release that comes from punishing the guilty. We punish because the criminal act was loathsome and the criminal himself hateful.”