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    If desert-based suffering is intrinsically morally requir... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Punishment cannot be justified even in principle and is morally wrong.

    If desert-based suffering is intrinsically morally required, then the claim that punishment is morally wrong in principle is false regardless of whether consequentialist justifications succeed.

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    Consequentialist justifications(in ethics and philosophy of punishment)
    Arguments that say an action (like punishment) is right or wrong based on whether it produces good results or outcomes.
    Desert-based suffering(in ethics and philosophy of punishment)
    The idea that someone deserves to suffer because of something wrong they did—their suffering is a fitting response to their actions.
    Intrinsically morally required(in ethics)
    Something that is required by morality for its own sake, not because it leads to some other good outcome.
    Morally wrong in principle(in ethics)
    Something that is fundamentally or inherently wrong from an ethical standpoint, not just wrong because of its effects in a particular situation.

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