torture close reading- Foucault

For this close reading assignment I use the following passage:

"It is ugly to be punishable, but there is no glory in punishing. Hence that double system of protection that justice has set up between itself and the punishment it imposes." (pg. 10).

I found this passage very interesting when I read it. Not so much the use of words or anything, just the depth and clarity of the text. Although the whole story is leaning towards the topic of how torture is getting less severe and becoming more in public this really just straight up explains a major reason why things began to change. No one wants to be punished, or willingly go through physical pain, that is why it is a punishment. It is something that is feared and frowned upon in scoiety. This passage however shows how we got to where punishment is seen today. Society began to change and there was no glory in punishing another person. It held no deep joy or enthusiasm. It was something that had to be done, but no one really wanted to be the one to do it. That may be a major reason why punishment became more set on justice and not just pain. People were to actually be tried for there crime and the evidence behind the crime that they were being accused of in the first place.

This appears to be a very short post... I am not quite sure where to expand upon this.