telishment punishment of one suspected of wrongdoing, but whom the authorities know to be innocent, imposed as a deterrent to future wrongdoers. Telishment is thus not punishment insofar as punishment requires that the recipient’s harsh treatment be deserved. Telishment is classically given as one of the thought experiments challenging utilitarianism (and more broadly, consequentialism) as a theory of ethics, for such a theory seems to justify telishment on some occasions. See also PUNISHMEN. M.S.M.