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    Challenges→If a third framework can achieve punishment's legitimate aims more coherently, the retributivism-versus-consequentialism debate is rendered a false dilemma.

    Any 'third framework' ultimately prioritizes either backward-looking (retributive) or forward-looking (consequentialist) justifications, making it a disguised variant rather than genuine alternative.

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    Backward-looking(describing one function of responsibility practices)
    Focused on what happened in the past—looking back at actions that already occurred.
    Forward-looking(describing another function of responsibility practices)
    Focused on the future and what we want to prevent or achieve ahead of time.
    consequentialist justification(in ethics)
    The idea that an action is justified by whether it produces good results or outcomes, rather than whether the action itself is right or wrong.
    disguised variant(in this argument about theories of justice)
    Something that looks like it's new or different on the surface, but is actually just a hidden version of something that already existed.
    retributive justification

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    (in criminal justice and ethics)
    The idea that punishment is justified because wrongdoers deserve to suffer in proportion to their crime—it's about payback or getting what you deserve.
    third framework(in philosophy of criminal justice)
    A third approach or theory that claims to be different from both retributive and consequentialist views—a middle ground or alternative option.

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