TELISH — [Verb] To punish an innocent person for the sake of deterrence; to subject someone to telishment. Coined by John Rawls in 1955, likely a portmanteau of the Ancient Greek τέλος (télos, "end" or "the greater good") and the English word punish. Unlike "punish" (which implies retribution or correction for wrongdoing) or "scapegoat" (which diverts blame without systemic intent), telish is the cold calculus of sacrifice—a bureaucrat’s signature on an execution order, a child exiled to preserve the peace, a village burned to teach others obedience. It is the moment when justice, inverted, becomes a ledger of acceptable losses.