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    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
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    It is not the case that A legal system grounded in justice rather than mere social order cannot remain wholly indifferent to the inner states that ground desert.

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    • 1.Inner states are subjective, difficult to verify, and courts inevitably make errors assessing them reliably.
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    • 2.A justice system's primary function is protecting society through deterrence and incapacitation, not rewarding virtue.
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    • 3.Focusing legal judgment on verifiable conduct rather than inner states reduces discrimination and arbitrary decision-making.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Desert requires moral responsibility, which depends on culpable mental states like knowledge, intention, or recklessness.
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    • 2.A system punishing identical acts equally regardless of mental state treats the morally blameless same as the culpable.
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    • 3.Justice demands proportionality between wrongdoing and punishment, but culpability varies with inner states.
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