funishment

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funishment (countable and uncountable, plural funishments)

(ethics, uncountable) A proposed treatment of criminals that would take them out of wider society (like a traditional prison) but without aiming to punish them.
- 2013, Gregg D. Caruso, Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility, page 107:
  I cannot elaborate in full detail here on the way things would unfold, but the crux is that hard determinism is seen to collapse upon itself: institutions of “funishment” will lose their ability to deter, and prove self-defeating.
- 2014, Derk Pereboom, Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in Life, page 172:
  Funishment would resemble punishment in that criminals would be incarcerated apart from lawful society; and institutions of funishment would also need to be as secure as current prisons, to prevent criminals from escaping.
- 2023, Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:
  If constraint, no matter how minimal, involves an adverse element that is undeserved punishment, quarantine advocates must provide, in [Saul] Smilansky's words, compensatory “funishment.”
(BDSM, countable, uncountable) A "punishment" administered for the enjoyment of the submissive, rather than as discipline.
- 2014, Raven Kaldera, Sabrina Popp, Unequal By Design: Counseling Power Dynamic Relationships:
  […] when punishment turns into “funishment”, and the Minuscule starts “acting out” in order to have some desired masochistic play.

proposed treatment