You’re correct, I was confused in exactly that way.
Once that confusion was cleared up by replies, I became confused as to why the hell (ha?) we were talking about this example at all. I am currently of the belief that it’s just a bad example and we should talk about a different one, since there have got to be better examples of counterintuitive bad outcomes from more reasonable-sounding punishment strategies.
You’re correct, I was confused in exactly that way.
Once that confusion was cleared up by replies, I became confused as to why the hell (ha?) we were talking about this example at all. I am currently of the belief that it’s just a bad example and we should talk about a different one, since there have got to be better examples of counterintuitive bad outcomes from more reasonable-sounding punishment strategies.