Add to the above Hobbes' repeated insistence that law serve as an instrument for achieving social equality.

除此之外,霍布斯坚决主张,法律应当是维护社会公平和平等的工具。

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And, in a similar point, he maintains that punishment can never be used as an instrument of revenge but only for what he calls the correction or what we would call the rehabilitation of the offender.

同时他还认为,法律上的惩罚是不能作为复仇的工具,而当作为纠正罪犯过错的工具,即我们今天叫的,对罪犯进行改造。

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