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I wonder if I should add 'desire that evil acts be punished' to my list of human instincts.
I remember an old 'Candid Camera' segment in which some preschoolers were playing. Maybe ages 3 to 5. A boy, older, wrecks something a young girl was doing. Don't remember what now. Anyway, he accepts he did bad, and offers her his arm, so she can bite it, in retribution. Even lets her bite it twice, maybe first time wasn't hard enough? Anyway, he does wrong, he actually seeks punishment, and then all is well.
Funny how that works.
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