Exceeding fines

Posted on January 30, 2020 by Confanity

信賞必罰
shin.shou.hitsu.batsu

Literally: fidelity – prize/reward – inevitable – punishment

Alternately: Sure reward and certain punishment. Strict, unfailing, and proper apportionment of just deserts, both boons and banes.

Notes: This phrase comes to us from the Han Feizi (the『韓非子』= Japanese Kanpishi), a Warring States era Chinese text on political philosophy.

ShinShouHitsuBatsuButton

Call your reps and tell them to press the “justice” button.

About Confanity

I love the written word more than anything else I've had the chance to work with. I'm back in the States from Japan for grad school, but still studying Japanese with the hope of becoming a translator -- or writer, or even teacher -- as long as it's something language-related.
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