#TVOP (The Varieties Of Punishments) --- SynTalk

Are we trustworthy? Are you being watched; by whom? How is punishment in the personal sphere different from that imposed by Law? Does Law reason, & permit discretion? Is re-offence rampant? Is punishment a necessity (& a utility?) in a social ordered system? Does society punish for its own sake? Must punishment be just and proportionate, and not merely efficient? Does it need to be accompanied by a moral event in the perpetrator? Can one buy one’s way out of capital punishment? Must causation be separated from correlation to understand if deterrence works? Are moral systems to be kept out of legal systems? Must justice be retributive or ‘forward looking’? Are fines better than imprisonment, & when? Why is punishment graded? Why isn’t there death penalty for bank robbery? Must policing be minimized and punishment maximized? Do criminals calculate; is there a link between notions of autonomy, foreseeability, and rationality? Did we always think that children should not be caned? Are we likely to be aghast in the future that we once caged fellow human beings? Is a punishment free society more likely than a crime free society; why? Can we self regulate? SynTalk thinks about these & more questions using concepts from law (Dr. Yug Mohit Chaudhry, Mumbai), economics (Dr. Parikshit Ghosh, Delhi School of Economics, New Delhi), & philosophy (Dr. Pravesh Jung Golay, IIT Bombay, Mumbai). Listen in…