Bentham said that “punishment is harm

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Bentham said that “punishment is harm. Therefore punishment can only be justified if it prevents greater evil than it produces.”

• Do you agree with this? Why or why not?
• What if if doesn’t prevent greater evil?
• Return to the board and read over the posts of your fellow classmates. Choose at least one classmate and create a post responding to his/her initial post on the Discussion Board. Be thoughtful in your response, indicating your agreement/disagreement with their posting and give a careful reasoning of your position.

Julianna McCouch 10:06am I do not agree with this because punishment in my opinion is good and can prevent things from happening in the future whether it be a greater crime or less. For example if someone murders someone and gets punishment for this we can not not just punish them for this and let them go because it is less evil then two murders. It is also going off of someone's own opinion of what the greater evil is. If it does not prevent greater evil then what is the point of punishment? Punishment is used to prevent things from happening again. 5 Reply