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    If all crimes are equally infinite, then according to thi... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→A crime against God is infinite in demerit

    If all crimes are equally infinite, then according to this argument, those offenses will not receive more punishment than others

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    • 1.In Anselm's satisfaction theory, any sin against an infinite God incurs infinite moral debt, making all sins categorically equivalent in magnitude.
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    • 2.Categorical equivalence in moral debt entails categorical equivalence in retributive punishment, collapsing degrees of desert into a single infinite class.
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    • 3.If punishment tracks desert and all desert is equally infinite, no proportional differentiation in punishment is coherent or justifiable.
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    • 1.Aquinas held that eternal punishment's infinitude derives from the infinite dignity of God offended, not from the finite act's empirical severity.
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    • 2.If the ground of punishment's magnitude is identical across all offenses (divine infinite dignity), then no offense generates more punitive claim than another.
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    • 3.Jonathan Edwards' doctrine that any sin merits infinite wrath confirms that the infinite qualifier absorbs all finite distinctions between crimes.
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    • There are degrees of torment
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    • If the above is true, then it is not that the statement is true
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