 If retributivism were based on the thought that wrongdoers' suffering is good in itself, then punishment is not necessary as a bridge connecting the suffering and the individual bad acts. If the connection between individual bad acts and suffering is lost, then retributivists are left with the need to keep a whole-life ledger of good and bad acts, for which they want a person to have the appropriate amount of whole-life happiness or suffering (Ezorsky 1972: xxvi; Tadros 2011: 68). But the idea of tracking all of a person's good and bad deeds, and all of her happiness or suffering, and aiming to align them is problematic. It suggests that one could bank good deeds and “earn the ability to commit misdeeds with impunity” (Alexander 2013: 318). Such banking should be rejected, even though it is plausible that performing heroic deeds after having committed a wrong mitigates the punishment deserved.