Revenge requires crime and punishment be separated in time

Evidence

“So what happens if the perpetrator of death dealing dies of his own free will at the very moment of his crime? What, in other words, if crime and punishment are united? … Revenge always justifies itself as fighting back, which is why it requires that crime and punishment be separated in time. It is when this eventalization is impossible, as in suicide bombing, that a fundamental sense of identity—of witnesses who identify with the dead and depend on retributive justice to produce a sense of satisfaction—may be radically threatened and horror may seize them.” — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 900

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A slain man’s surviving son can restore his honor through revenge — Homer; Robert Fagles; Bernard Knox, The Odyssey, 770; Confinement of sanctioned violence to places was meant to circumscribe it — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 252; Crime can be redefined as tort requiring repair rather than retribution (+7 more)

Related

• Punishment must make the crime-punishment code immediate in act and reality (similarity 0.82)
• A slain man’s surviving son can restore his honor through revenge (similarity 0.79)
• Justice reenacted the crime in execution to annul it (similarity 0.79)
• Justice is revenge deferred and transformed into objective legal procedure (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Codified legal punishment works by creating mental associations of crime and punishment. #contradicts (0.70)
• Crime can be redefined as tort requiring repair rather than retribution #expands (0.60)
• Public punishment served to reconstitute the sovereign’s injured authority #complicates (0.50) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 675
• Punishment shifted from sovereign vengeance to ensuring no crime goes unpunished #responds-to (0.45)
• Subtler punishment masked sovereign power rather than making it more humane #complicates (0.40)