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Give me one instance where collective punishment has worked

This 4-panel meme uses characters from the animated series Futurama to satirize collective punishment. In the first panel, Leela is labeled as teachers, stating the common incorrect belief that punishing an entire class for one troublemaker's actions will make the troublemaker improve their behavior. Bender laughs hysterically in the second panel, then states 'Oh wait, you're serious. Let me laugh even harder!' in the third panel, before laughing even more loudly in the fourth panel. The meme humorously argues that collective punishment, the practice of penalizing an entire group for the actions of a single individual, is completely ineffective, directly responding to the prompt asking for any successful instance of collective punishment.
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Teachers: By punishing the whole class the troublemaker will behave
Bender: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Bender: Oh wait, you're serious. Let me laugh even harder!
Bender: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Overview

This 4-panel meme uses characters from the animated series Futurama to satirize collective punishment. In the first panel, Leela is labeled as teachers, stating the common incorrect belief that punishing an entire class for one troublemaker's actions will make the troublemaker improve their behavior. Bender laughs hysterically in the second panel, then states 'Oh wait, you're serious. Let me laugh even harder!' in the third panel, before laughing even more loudly in the fourth panel. The meme humorously argues that collective punishment, the practice of penalizing an entire group for the actions of a single individual, is completely ineffective, directly responding to the prompt asking for any successful instance of collective punishment.

Origin notes

This meme is sourced from the Reddit r/Meme subreddit via RSS. It is a remix of the widely popular 'Bender laughing at bad idea' 4-panel template from the animated show Futurama, edited to add text mocking the common teacher practice of giving entire class collective punishment for individual student misbehavior.

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