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A more fruitful response would have attempted to delineate some difference between the claim you intended and the claim as it reads. I quoted you directly
The "punishment" you're referring to in this context is the assigned grade, and this line is a quote response to the question
Making you appear to be responding to the notion that standards exist beyond those explicitly outlined among some set of specifically delineated "rules" (most likely the formal rubric). In other words this is a positive assertion that
If this is not what you intend, you should be more clear.
You're welcome to make an argument.
This is confused on a few counts. First, comprehending the implications of a conclusion implies no necessary understanding of the arguments which lead to the conclusion. These are two wholly distinct domains of knowledge. Second, the issue in this case is not identifying the existence of "biblical implications of a psychological claim" but rather making a claim about psychology on the basis of biblical premises. Biblical evidence is not itself scientific in nature and consequently does not form a rational basis for scientific claims.
The student shouldn't have been given a zero my prior is strongly in favor of the position that the grader's decision to award no points rather than whatever the rubrik assigned was politically motivated.
However, if you are rejecting the question
On the basis that such considerations would constitute an "unreasonable" application of authority to "formally punish people for something that is not against the rules."
Then you're incorrect both in general and in these particulars.
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