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    Human wickedness does not always require divine punishment. — Carmelics
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    Human wickedness does not always require divine punishment.

    Against a future action of God
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    • 1.Wickedness of itself ruins the life of those who act wickedly.
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    • 2.Self-ruin constitutes a sufficient punishment for wicked action.
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    • 1.Self-ruin from vice is often imperceptible to the wicked agent, who mistakes corrupt pleasures for genuine flourishing (Plato, Republic 580d-588a).
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    • 2.Punishment requires not merely harm but recognition of desert; unfelt self-ruin lacks the retributive structure that justice demands.
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    • 1.Wicked acts harm third parties whose claims to justice cannot be satisfied merely by the agent's internal degradation (Kant, Metaphysics of Morals 6:331-337).
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    • 2.A theory of punishment grounded solely in the perpetrator's self-harm systematically ignores the victim's standing as a rights-bearing moral subject.
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    In this work Plutarch examines an issue with which philosophers of his age are seriously concerned, namely that of theodicy. Even if God is not responsible for occurrences of evil (see above, sect. 4.2), there is a question of why these are not always punished promptly by God. In his treatise On the Delays of the Divine Vengeance Plutarch addresses the question of whether the delays of divine punishment speak against the existence of divine providence (550C) and he replies that this is not the c
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