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    It is not the case that If hard treatment requires no communicative justification to be deserved, then communicative retributivism adds unnecessary complexity without resolving the core retributive intuition.

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    • 1.Hard treatment as pure suffering disconnected from meaning fails to explain why punishment differs morally from torture or assault.
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    • 2.The retributive intuition includes that wrongdoers should understand why they're punished; unexplained suffering is arbitrary, not just.
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    • 3.Communicative justification isn't added complexity but rather clarifies what makes punishment an accountable practice rather than brute force.
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    • 1.Desert is fundamentally about proportional response to wrongdoing, not about conveying messages to offenders or society.
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    • 2.Adding communicative requirements to retributivism multiplies theoretical commitments without explaining why proportional harm deserves justification.
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    • 3.A murderer deserves punishment for their act alone; whether they understand the message is irrelevant to what they merit.
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