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    If justice were merely distress-avoidance, the perfectly ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Justice, understood as the rules governing human intercourse, is grounded in the need to avoid distress.

    If justice were merely distress-avoidance, the perfectly unjust man who escapes detection would have no reason to be just, contradicting our firm moral intuitions.

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    • 1.Our deepest moral convictions judge the unpunished wrongdoer as genuinely blameworthy, not merely unfortunate.
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    • 2.If justice were only about avoiding consequences, the concept of integrity or inner virtue becomes unintelligible.
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    • 3.We condemn hidden injustice as wrong even when all distress is prevented, showing morality transcends outcomes alone.
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    • 1.Our moral intuitions evolved to enforce cooperation in groups; they naturally judge unpunished wrongdoing as bad.
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    • 2.Distress-avoidance need not be the complete account; justice could be multi-faceted without invalidating consequentialist elements.
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    • 3.The argument assumes our firm intuitions are reliable guides to metaphysical truth rather than adaptive heuristics.
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