But the choice between the two does not lie in your hands, it rests with the prisoner. If he agrees with you that he has done wrong, then you can punish him. By being civilised we mean that there is a certain list of things about which we permit a man to have an opinion different from ours. Evil is what you feel to be injurious to your moral health. Good is what satisfies your personal sense of justice.
Morality is nothing if it is merely a form of good behaviour.
Ethics - An individual's code for society's survival. One of the world's greatest religions was founded upon the spiritual idealization of such a sacrifice as the central, culminating act of faith.