[ExI] punishment

[Damien Broderick]

At 07:21 PM 3/18/2009 +0100, Mirco wrote:

>>The prison system really hates prisoners who won't admit they are guilty.
>
>The government, please.
>The prison system is a part of the same substance of the government.

The dominant culture, please.
The government is a part of the same substance as the culture.

(One probably can't take the next step:

"The species biology, please."

Too many important cultural variants, however bounded and constrained.

But it's tempting, as Keith Henson keeps showing us.)

Damien Broderick