Punishing the good

1 · · July 20, 2021, 11:41 p.m.
Should you punish people for wronging others, or for making the wrong call about wronging others? For example: A newspaper sends me annoying emails all the time, but suppose that empirically if they didn’t behave like this, they would get markedly fewer subscribers, and may not survive. And suppose their survival is in fact worth a little annoyance for a lot of people, we all agree. Such that if I was in their position, I agree that I would send out the annoying emails. Should I resent them and...