If punishing people for their errors brought us any peace, it's hard to tell

Think of retribution as the single greatest source of corruption in all of humanity.

I was talking with someone I love the other day. We were talking about corruption in politics. We don’t often agree on much in politics. He reminded me of a group that had a fondness for saying, “The storm is coming.” There is a widespread cultural belief that people who are corrupt should be punished. I told him that the punishments we impose don’t sol…