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    Challenges→The practice of punishment is especially normatively challenging to justify.

    If a practice is morally obligatory in paradigm cases, it cannot simultaneously be described as especially difficult to justify—obligation presupposes justification is already secured.

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    Key Terms

    Presupposes(as describing what Plantinga's argument takes for granted)
    Assumes something to be true without proving it—like how an argument might presuppose that logic works, without first arguing that logic is valid.
    justification(Third condition of the tripartite account of knowledge)
    The condition on a knower's belief that excludes mere luck — the belief must be held in a way that is appropriate or warranted, not merely accidentally correct.
    morally obligatory(in ethics)
    Something you have a duty or responsibility to do because it's the right thing to do, not just something nice or optional.
    paradigm cases(used to explain how we define concepts)
    The clearest, most obvious examples of something that help us understand what that thing is—like using a robin as the paradigm case of a bird.

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