REWARDS AND PUNISHMENT

Rewards and Punishment

Rewards and Punishment

Pojman argues that we should strive to form a world in which "the virtuous are rewarded and the vicious are punished in proportion to their relative deserts.”

I agree with Pojman. Pojman's stance is a sound one. The anti-thesis would be unthinkable. People who do good should be justly rewarded and those who resort to evil ways punished. The more effort done, the higher should be the reward. The more evil an act is, the more severe should be the punishment. This is the simple down-to-earth thesis of Pojman's position. To fail to accord ...