The use of pain response as a behavioral modification program in systems of law fails to grasp frequency of individual experience as a factor in learning. It works for traffic/speeding tickets. It does not work for issues likely to be experienced less than three times in a lifespan.

Those issues should be addressed by determining the motive that drives them and the environmental factors that make that motive a viable strategy.

I'm usually all for subverting the dominant paradigm, but "status quo" sort of covers the whole universe. Could you narrow this down, just a hair?