Reply #20: Having not had the benefit of such an education, I'll take your word for it. [View All]

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I suppose there is something to be said for terrorizing a person into doing the right thing. The problem with such a system, as you learned from painful personal experience, is that such a system basically invites arbitrary enforcement. Hence if Sister Editha didn't like you, or was otherwise annoyed by you, you got to feel a little more of the wooden weight of "God's Justice"

I somewhat doubt you do the right thing just because you fear the sudden appearance of nuns with rulers (though I could be wrong, I have been told they fly, okay bad nun joke I apologize.) So do you do the right thing out of a memory of past humiliation?