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    It is not the case that Antony Duff's expressivist account demonstrates that punitive hard treatment can be justified as communicative penance without appealing to general distributive principles of justice.

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    • 1.Communication alone cannot justify imposing suffering; some independent moral principle must authorize state-inflicted harm on citizens.
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    • 2.Duff's account tacitly relies on distributive assumptions (fairness, desert) when determining what penance adequately expresses wrongdoing.
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    • 3.If punishment expresses community values, it still requires justice principles to prevent arbitrary or disproportionate expression against offenders.
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    • 1.Punishment as penance focuses on wrongdoer's moral recognition, making distributive fairness to victims secondary to expressive function.
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    • 2.Duff's account avoids circularity: it justifies hard treatment through communicative purpose, not by presupposing justice principles.
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    • 3.Expressivist theories can ground proportionality through seriousness of moral message needed, independent of comparative desert claims.
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