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Consequentialist punishment fails to respect the person p... — Carmelics

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Consequentialist punishment fails to respect the person punished as an autonomous moral agent.

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Consequentialist punishment treats those punished as mere means to achieving some social good, rather than respecting them as ends in themselves.
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1.Consequentialist frameworks like rule utilitarianism ground punishment in rules that themselves encode respect for persons as rational agents.
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2.Mill argued that utility properly understood includes the inviolability of individual rights as a paramount social interest, not merely aggregate welfare.
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3.A system that protects persons from harm through credible deterrence can express greater respect for autonomy than one that ignores preventable violations.
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1.P.F. Strawson showed that reactive attitudes like resentment and moral accountability are compatible with a broadly consequentialist social practice of punishment.
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2.Treating someone as a responsible agent whose choices warrant deterrent responses presupposes, rather than negates, their status as an autonomous moral agent.
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First, punishment involves material impositions or exactions that are in themselves typically unwelcome: they deprive people of things that they value (liberty, money, time); they require people to do things that they would not normally want to do or do voluntarily (to spend time on unpaid community labour, to report to a probation officer regularly, to undertake demanding programmes of various kinds). What distinguishes punishment from other kinds of coercive imposition, such as taxation, is that punishment is precisely intended to …: but to what? Some would say that punishment is intended to...

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