As well vote “just compensation” to the hardened offender who renounces disobedience to the Ten Commandments, and promises that he will cease to steal, cease to commit adultery, and cease to covet his neighbor’s wife!
Sumner compares the idea of compensating for the renunciation of immoral acts to the absurdity of rewarding a criminal for stopping their crimes.
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