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    If desert provides a limit to punishment, then punishment... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Negative retributivism, as standardly framed, contains a contradiction.

    If desert provides a limit to punishment, then punishment must be deserved up to that limit.

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    The appeal of retributive justice as a theory of punishment rests in part on direct intuitive support, in part on the claim that it provides a better account of when punishment is justifiable than alternative accounts of punishment, and in part on arguments tying it to deeper moral principles.

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