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    A democratic society grounded in equal dignity requires t... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Restorative justice is essential to the rehabilitative healing required to forge a new democratic South Africa.

    A democratic society grounded in equal dignity requires that serious human rights violations receive proportional punishment, not merely narrative acknowledgment.

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    • 1.Equal dignity requires equal accountability: if violations harm victims equally, proportional punishment affirms their equal moral worth.
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    • 2.Narrative-only responses fail deterrence and fail victims seeking concrete justice, undermining rule of law.
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    • 3.Impunity for serious violations signals that some people's rights matter less, corroding democratic legitimacy.
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    • 1.Proportional punishment assumes measurable harm equivalence, but dignity violations are incommensurable and resist quantification.
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    • 2.Truth commissions and narrative acknowledgment may better preserve social cohesion needed for democracy than retributive cycles.
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    • 3.Punishing past violators may perpetuate cycles of revenge, whereas dignity can be restored through recognition and institutional reform.
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