If you take out that source of bad behavior (and of threat of like) then people are less inclined to nastiness.

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There is always the human impulse to want to punish detestable behavior, even if the lingering threat from the miscreant is minimal.

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Last October James bought a company called Corda, which makes software that turns corporate data into intelligent graphics, a business that could become a threat if Omniture technology moves into analyzing corporate behavior.

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And so we intend to continue to put pressure on Iran to meet its international obligations and to cease the kinds of provocative behavior that has made it a threat to its neighbors and the international community.

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The key thing is that under its Commerce Clause powers, Congress can use the threat of fines and even jail time to compel behavior.

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Such behavior has long been understood to pose a threat to the United States, as well.

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We have used the threat of force to try to make somebody change their behavior.

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It challenges our traditional reliance on a model of human behavior that presupposes a rational person capable of being deterred by the threat of punishment.

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Bad guys are deterred by force, the threat of force, or by their cold calculation that the costs of evil behavior are not worth the risk.

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