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by bee_rider 814 days ago
> Are you saying you are never influenced by consequences in choosing what to do?

Nope.

> I understand the magnitude of deterrence effects may be in question, or that the relative worth of different types of deterrence are open to debate.

In the context of the thread

> A good prison system should balance all four.

I thought it would be clear that the magnitude and the relative worth were the topic. Sorry if that wasn’t the case! I’m definitely not going to defend the idea that nobody has ever avoided doing something for fear of punishment (although I do think that in a well functioning society, most of the negative consequences should be natural, not artificially imposed as punishments).

> If I fail to be visible during break duty (so that students think there are unlikely to be consequences), students will climb the volleyball net. :D

I think if that’s the sort of thing you are worried about, you must be working with kids. They probably need a stricter treatment, since their brains aren’t done yet.