We talked about a passage on pg. 16 where Foucault quotes Mably saying that the soul should be punished instead of the body. I believe this is the transition we have had in our evolution of the law system. Before, the law was primarily focused on the idea of punishing the body. People wanted to punish the crime with the same crime, i.e. the death penalty and torture punished murder. Now this ideology has shifted to punishing the soul of a person through acts of discipline. This starts at a very young age. It seems to me that the souls of children are “publicly tortured” in the school system. The example we had in class was when a kid is bad, he had to change the flag at his table to red or yellow. This is a public humiliation. Teachers are trying to get a positive response from a student by insulting his or her public standing in the classroom. The same goes for disciplinary acts in the workplace. If someone does not perform his job adequately, he or she is fired from the respective position. This is a public execution from the person in the workplace. This person has lost the social standing that he or she once held in the workplace. By this token, punishment and torture have evolved to hurt the soul, or public standing of a person, as opposed to bodily harm. Thus, discipline is not only used for cataloging an individual’s personality, but also for hurting the social aspect of a social creature.