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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: The fiction is that the law punishes the man by inflicting upon him a variety of physical and degrading hardships.

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The fiction is that the law punishes the man by inflicting upon him a variety of physical and degrading hardships.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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He asserts that the law's punishment is often more about inflicting suffering than achieving justice, questioning the morality of such practices.

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