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The idea that punishment works is for the most part an authoritarian fantasy, not reality, and this is backed by both research into individual behavior and collective behavior.
Probably because the insurance companies they compete with are bound by the same (specific, predictable, law-based) rules prohibiting that behavior. Probably not because they are afraid of angry customers with guns.
The idea that punishment works is the concept behind our entire justice system, and most of society.
You seem to have missed the point. You claimed that 'the risk factor is simply working in that industry at all'. I'm pointing out that the industry does not inherently have any risk factor, and it's entirely possible to be in the industry without murdering tens of thousands of people. The rest of the world manages to do it. The risk factor would be deciding to screw your customers over.
It's one of the concepts, and that's a big part of why we have so much evidence against it.
On a quick google:
So the more executions, the more effective it is?
Sounds right, but again with the caveat, what are they being caught for? Being a healthcare executive at all? Some vaguely defined moral threshhold? What is it they are being taught to fear, and how disconnected is that from any actual intention? Like beating a dog to try to get it to stop destroying your furniture. And then consider that certain punishment for them isn't actually realistic unless it's the government imposing it. Vigilantes can't get them all or probably even many of them.
If anything, China and Russia have shown that having unclear laws and lines are far more effective than clear-cut rules, because when you don't know where the line is, you self-police to a degree more than the state would otherwise do. It doesn't work on dogs because they aren't intelligent enough to understand. It DOES work on humans because we get it.
That would depend on how popular a movement it becomes, hmm? It certainly worked for the IRA.