A hybrid account that incorporates retributive side-constraints preemptively blocks consequentialist overreach, making the transferred objection logically inapplicable rather than merely mitigated.
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Based on the idea that punishment should be given simply because someone deserves it for doing wrong, like 'an eye for an eye.'
Side-constraints(in ethics, particularly Nozick's political philosophy)
Absolute moral rules or boundaries that you cannot cross, no matter how much benefit you could gain by breaking them—think of them as hard limits on behavior.
The transferred objection(as used in ethics debates)
A philosophical challenge that questions whether a solution to one ethical problem can be moved or copied over to solve a different ethical problem.
consequentialism(Applied to terrorism and legal punishment)
The view that practices are judged solely by their consequences, such that a practice is wrong only if it has bad consequences on balance.