funishment

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A proposed treatment of criminals that would take them out of wider society (like a…

   A proposed treatment of criminals that would take them out of wider society (like a traditional prison) but without aiming to punish them.

   • I cannot elaborate in full detail here on the way things would unfold, but the crux is that hard determinism is seen to collapse upon itself: institutions of “funishment” will lose their ability to deter, and prove self-defeating.
   • Funishment would resemble punishment in that criminals would be incarcerated apart from lawful society; and institutions of funishment would also need to be as secure as current prisons, to prevent criminals from escaping.
   • If constraint, no matter how minimal, involves an adverse element that is undeserved punishment, quarantine advocates must provide, in [Saul] Smilansky's words, compensatory “funishment.”
2. 2

   A "punishment" administered for the enjoyment of the submissive, rather than as…

   A "punishment" administered for the enjoyment of the submissive, rather than as discipline.

   • […] when punishment turns into “funishment”, and the Minuscule starts “acting out” in order to have some desired masochistic play.

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