 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
What I am saying is that punishment, where justifiable, is a regrettable necessity and not something to rejoice at as a just retribution. ...
It is not in this way that conventional moralists view “sinners”. On the contrary, a belief in sin is held to justify those emotions of hatred to which most people are prone. This is especially disastrous when it is a whole nation or race or creed that is thought wicked. The world in which we live is filled with such collective hatreds; and it is they, more than anything else, that threaten mankind with disaster.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), chapter 12：Superstitious Ethics, n.7
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