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Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distin

Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. – Thomas Szasz

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Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. – Thomas Szasz

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He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself. – Thomas Szasz

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