Word: wrongdoers
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...ways to get fired. One is to sell (or give away) a Tiffany box to a non-purchaser. Another is to fight with an old customer. The third is to steal. About once in ten years an employe is caught stealing. But Tiffany's never prosecutes. Instead the wrongdoer is quietly escorted out the rear door, warned never to try the jewelry business again...
...Cincinnati, a fleeing thug boarded the automobile of 45-year-old Chinese Fred Wong, told him to step on it. Wong would not go against a red light, though the burglar beat him with the butt of his gun. Police captured the wrongdoer, congratulated Wong. Wong said sheepishly: "I was afraid of being arrested for crashing a light...
...Sanctions Mean War!" Such action is called in League parlance "invoking sanctions." In law a sanction is any measure applied to a wrongdoer to make him comply with what the community has made right and legal. Sanctions contemplated by the Covenant of the League are of four kinds: 1) moral and diplomatic measures, such as recalling all diplomats accredited to the wrong-doing State; 2) financial and economic measures, such as refusing further credit; 3) international boycott, to deprive the wrongdoer of all trade; and 4) force, or the declaration of war on the wrongdoer by League States...
...prison inmates ought to be so treated. American penalism knows the extremes of the Florida sweat-box and the steam-heated cosy little chintz-curtained cells of our more modern institutions. The ideal probably is somewhere in between, with more consideration given to the casual, petty, or youthful wrongdoer, and much less to the case-hardened tough-and-proud-of-it thug and gunman...
...teach a lunatic the difference between right and wrong. One can never hope that a mental defective will do constructive work for society or even that he will become independent of charitable aid. Practically therefore the sane criminal should at least be on a parity with the lunatic wrongdoer in the eyes of the law. Misplaced mercy to the hopelessly insane does not add to the total of human happiness...