Telishment is an act by the authorities of punishing a suspect in order to deter future wrongdoers, even though they know that the suspect is innocent. If supporters of these theories believe in the effectiveness of telishment as a deterrent, opponents claim that they must
bite the bullet
"Biting the bullet" is a metaphor which is used to describe a situation, often a debate, where one accepts an inevitable impending hardship or hard-to-refute point, and then endures the resulting pain with fortitude.
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and also hold that telishment is ethically justified.
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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" () is a 1973 short work of philosophical fiction by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. With deliberately both vague and vivid descriptions, the narrator depicts a summer festival in the utopian city of Omela ...
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The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
''The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy'' (1995; second edition 1999; third edition 2015) is a dictionary of philosophy published by Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press was the university press of the University of Cambrid ...
, year=1995, publisher=Cambridge University Press, location=Cambridge; New York, isbn=0-521-40224-7, pages=791–792
Concepts in ethics
Utilitarianism
Punishment
Concepts in political philosophy