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    Challenges→The justification of punishment requires a mixed or hybrid account that combines consequentialist and nonconsequentialist considerations.

    If a single-framework account can derive both the general aim and its limits from consequences at the level of rules rather than acts, then hybrid accounts merely paper over an incomplete consequentialist analysis.

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    Consequences at the level of acts(in ethics)
    The direct outcomes of specific individual actions, rather than the broader results of following general rules.
    Consequences at the level of rules(in ethics)
    The outcomes that result from following general guidelines or laws, as opposed to the outcomes of individual actions.
    Derive(what happens in formal systems when you apply the rules)
    To reach a conclusion or produce a statement by following logical rules step-by-step from starting assumptions.
    Hybrid accounts(in ethics)
    Moral theories that combine multiple different approaches or principles to decide what's right, rather than relying on just one method.
    Single-framework account(in ethics)

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    A theory that uses one consistent set of principles to explain and judge all moral situations, rather than switching between different approaches.
    consequentialism(Applied to terrorism and legal punishment)
    The view that practices are judged solely by their consequences, such that a practice is wrong only if it has bad consequences on balance.

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