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Wikipedia: Cesare Beccaria
On Crimes and Punishments section, temporal-proximity and severity-habituation paragraphsQuote, On Crimes and Punishments section, temporal-proximity and severity-habituation paragraphs
In time, we will naturally grow accustomed to increases in severity of punishment, and, thus, the initial increase in severity will lose its effect. There are limits both to how much torment we can endure and also how much we can inflict.
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