“An individual should be retributed or reprimanded in accordance with the guilt, while the main goal is to retract the source causing the destruction along with diluting the disturbance and preventing further expansion or propagation of new sources.”
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?.
