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On Punishment * 141 the butterfly effect . There are, however, enormous challenges to devise punishments that take account of these effects equally, though one supposes that the victim should have priority over the type of punishment that would minimize its effects, or shall we say, cancel out the crime from the victim’s point of view . As far as the effects of punishment on the offender are concerned, again, it is difficult to identify with any precision the butterfly effects on the offender himself, its effects on his past and future relationships . In order to meet the demands of proportionality, we must be abl e to find an end point to the punishment of the offender . We have seen that this is in practice an impossibility though a rough approximation could be achieved, depending on the specific types of punishments applied . Some punishments are well known for their long - term effects, such as prison . Others, such as acute corporal punishments ( ranging from openly violent to min...
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