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Worst punishment in community-centered cultures because it removes a person from the social body that makes identity possible.
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banishment
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...most of human history was actually not execution but actually actually banishment from society right so if someone was displaying psychopathic tendencies it was..."
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Jiang distinguishes punishment from banishment: labor pain and hard agricultural work are the punishment, while banishment prevents access to the tree of life.
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Most historical cultures treated banishment as worse than death because the individual could not exist outside the community that gave tradition, worldview, religion, and mythology.
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Viking and Athenian banishment show that the worst punishment in community-centered societies is removal from the group that makes the person socially real.
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Jiang argues that in older small-scale communities psychopaths were easier to identify and punish because social life was close-knit and ostracism or banishment carried existential consequences.
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"...most of human history was actually not execution but actually actually banishment from society right so if someone was displaying psychopathic tendencies it was..."
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"...have to work hard to grow fruit. That's a punishment. The banishment is not the punishment. So another question then is, why were they..."
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"Then the eyes of both were opened. Okay? So Satan is telling the truth. You will not die. You will learn. You will become..."
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"...they inflicted on the individual was not execution. It was actually banishment. If you killed someone, we didn't kill you, we banished you from..."
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"...Yep. Okay. The Vikings? Okay. The Vikings their worst punishment is banishment as well. So for example if you killed someone you'd be banished...."
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"They always come back. Yes. So the Athenians banished a lot of people. Okay? And they always came back. And if they're banished they're..."
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"...way to the tree of life and so this is our banishment from the garden of eden now um most people think that this..."
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"Exactly. Banishment. Exile. Not death, right? And today, if I killed you, the police would come catch me and then kill me. But before,..."
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