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Why are good deeds punished so much by authorities?

This is a good way to disincentivize prosocial behavior.



>> Why are good deeds punished so much by authorities?

The problem can be "who defines good deeds?" There are so many things which seem good when presented one way, but can be harmful when viewed another way. Obviously, as presented above this seems like "an obvious good", but context matters, snd clearly you don't get the whole context from a one paragraph summary.

Ultimately we have civil structures (government at every level) that tries to codify "good" and "bad". Life is seldom that clean though, so inevitably every regulation and law is good for some bad for others.

So, to answer your question, because "good" and "prosocial" are not universally true.




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