Does punishment serve any useful long term purpose? It always seems like

Does punishment serve any useful long term purpose? It always seems like

Does punishment serve any useful long term purpose? It always seems like punishments that are excessively harsh lead to civil unrest, and punishments that are not harsh enough are thereby render quite useless. So is there a medium at which punishment is a useful tool in society, or is it just an archaic mode of retribution?

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