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    Being annihilated is not a punishment — Carmelics
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    Being annihilated is not a punishment

    Against an attribute of GodAnnihilation
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    • 1.Punishment requires suffering experienced by a conscious subject; annihilation eliminates consciousness, so no suffering occurs.
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    • 2.Punishment presupposes the subject can reflect on wrongdoing; annihilation precludes this reflective capacity entirely.
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    • 3.Punishment aims to deter or reform; annihilation achieves neither since the subject no longer exists to be affected.
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