"Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good."

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I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures?

— Thomas Jefferson