Which Punishment Is Better
When you do something criminal or break the law in some way today, instead of thinking that you may be beaten or publicly humiliated. It's more like well how long am I going to jail? This attitude toward punishment is what writer Jeff Jacoby brings to light. His thesis is simply, that is the punishments used in the past all that much more human or effective than the ones used today.
The writer's assumption that Boston's Puritans represented an entire country's views on corporal punishment is far fetched. Even though the Puritans are a good example and in thinking that that is what was meant, Jacoby should have listed more examples. Due to the way the first paragraphs are written seems that we are supposed to compare Puritan believes against America's corporal punishment laws today. Even later on the writer comes back to the Puritan and how their system can help teach us like they are the only ones who "flogged", criminals. Also in dealing with the Puritans and the way they......
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