Do Candide's Punishment Fit the Crime?

        I really do believe that Candide's punishment fits the crime. The time in which Voltaire was writing this parody is very different from today's. If we were to judge it from a modern day perspective based off modern values, then no we would not think his punishment fits the crime. \
         At the time though, there is a major philosophy that continues on throughout the story which is Pangloss's philosophy. Pangloss's phlosophy states that everything in the world is created for the best. Everytime that Candide receives a punishment, he seems to believe that he deserves it because it'll result into the best end. Based off of Pangloss's philosophy, every punishment fits the crime, whichever it may be since it's the supposedly for ther best end.
        While in today's world, getting whipped a couple thousand times in order to join the army and becoming homeless for kissing a girl may be a little extreme. I don't believe that in today's liberal world that Candide's punishments fit his crimes. At the time that Candide lived in though, with Pangloss's philosophy and all we would have to say that they were justified.