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Thomas Szasz

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

Thomas Szasz

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Thomas Szasz is saying that modern society dislikes punishment because it forces people to judge others as morally right or wrong, which conflicts with democratic ideals of equality. Instead, society chooses to blame groups as a whole without holding individuals accountable for their own actions.

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