The pleasure of punishment

The following is an excerpt from Part Two:

Everyone is happy with a scandal. That fact has not changed for hundreds upon thousands of years. Most of us do not come out and say that we are happy about it. We say that we are appalled. We ask, “Can you believe this?” From atop our haughty towers we yell to each other, “Can you get over that?” A scandal involving someone else somehow helps to make us feel a little better about ourselves. Someone else doing some “awful” thing equates to “I am not really so bad after all.” We do not stop there, oh no. Judging others makes us feel so good, that for sure we could feel even better if we go on to belittle, berate, and be mean. The garnish on that particular concoction is punishment. That is the purpose of prisons.

To punish good is the purpose of C/Os.

It is they, not the Department of Corrections (DOC) who do not administer fairness or justice. The DOC is responsible for the irresponsibility of letting that be the case. Removing the pleasure of punishment, the elation of extermination, would be like setting mousetraps to spite the cat. Prison staffs, enforcement personnel, the almighty unchallenged, un-questioned, unqualified-to-wear-a-uniform of accountability supremacists—these are the immoral mob that thrives on promoting scandalous criminal doings.

Are those who look the other way any less to blame?