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    It is not the case that If punishment's justifying function is communicative rather than transactional, the moral-debt model misidentifies punishment's structure and collapses into expressivist theory.

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    • 1.Communication and debt-repayment can coexist: punishment expresses censure while also satisfying the offender's obligation to make amends.
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    • 2.Expressivist theory alone cannot justify proportionality constraints; debt-models explain why excessive punishment is unjust even if communicative.
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    • 3.The claim conflates punishment's justifying function with its communicative mechanism—these address different philosophical questions.
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    • 1.Punishment's primary function is conveying moral censure to the offender and society, not repaying a debt incurred by wrongdoing.
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    • 2.If punishment aims to communicate condemnation, its justification structure mirrors expressivist accounts, making debt-models conceptually redundant.
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    • 3.Debt-models require punishment to restore balance; but communication requires only successful message transmission, a fundamentally different aim.
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