Eli Harman: “An evolutionary didactic method: teach morality by returning impose

Eli Harman: “An evolutionary didactic method: teach morality by returning imposed costs to their imposers. But this method works slowly”.

–“Punishing the wicked forces them to act a bit more morally. But you cannot teach them to desire higher morality without punishing lower morality. And if you punish them for immorality they will reject you moral teachings. So the only solution is to punish them until they learn their own higher morality (or die).”—