How is the severity of guilt determined?
The severity of guilt is determined by the degree of disturbance that is produced in the society (ideal), i.e. the more the disturbance, the more severe the guilt. (Disturbance includes the subsequent strengthening of the source that produced it, while also taking into account the new sources that emerge afterwards.) So, what actually is this source? In fact, there is no hard and fast rule to determine it, as any condition or circumstance that leads towards the guilt is actually the source, and its determination is done from case to case. (Once the severity is determined, the retribution is taken accordingly, irrespective of the cause or the source that provoked it.) (This is because the disturbance level is the point of consideration in this regard.)
From Is Retribution Essential?.
Determining the degree of disturbance
The measure as written
The rule of IS RETRIBUTION ESSENTIAL? sets the severity of a guilt by the disturbance it causes:
The severity of guilt is determined by the degree of disturbance that is produced in the society (ideal), i.e. the more the disturbance, the more severe the guilt. (Disturbance includes the subsequent strengthening of the source that produced it, while also taking into account the new sources that emerge afterwards.)
Step 1 of the judge's procedure determines that disturbance:
Step 1: Determine the degree of disturbance caused in the society by this act. This can be done by taking into account some aspects to be discussed here:
It takes five aspects. The provocation amount:
Provocation amount, i.e. how this act affected the perception of other individuals in the society about the guilt (the degree of change in reluctance, i.e. whether they became relatively more inclined towards doing the same action or did not care at all). There is always a designated value for the society that is the threshold, while it varies from culture to culture. Every culture can determine the increment by extensive study.
The security shock: