Can anyone here explain the difference between retaliation and punishment to me? I find these concepts to be very similar sometimes the same. What’s the difference?
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Retaliation is motivated by vengeance; the goal is to make somebody suffer in return for an injury. Punishment is an artificial consequence designed to discourage a behavior.
They’re not mutually exclusive terms, and there are plenty of cases in which punishment and retaliation overlap.
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