I think scapegoating has a particular definition – blaming someone for something that they didn’t do because your social environment demands someone get blamed. And that this isn’t relevant to most of my concerns here. You can get unjustly punished for things that have nothing to do with scapegoating.
Good point. I think there is a lot of scapegoating (in the sense you mean here) but that’s a further claim than that it’s unjust punishment, and I don’t believe this strongly enough to argue it right now.
I think scapegoating has a particular definition – blaming someone for something that they didn’t do because your social environment demands someone get blamed. And that this isn’t relevant to most of my concerns here. You can get unjustly punished for things that have nothing to do with scapegoating.
Good point. I think there is a lot of scapegoating (in the sense you mean here) but that’s a further claim than that it’s unjust punishment, and I don’t believe this strongly enough to argue it right now.