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    If purposes of punishment are exhausted by prevention rat... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Reid's second argument for moral liberty fails if the sole purposes of punishment are preventative rather than retributive

    If purposes of punishment are exhausted by prevention rather than desert, the retributivist premise does not hold

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    The first argument for moral liberty depends upon the inadequacy of any account of deliberation that leaves out the belief that our conduct is in our power. So the second depends upon the inadequacy of any account of what makes a person morally accountable that does not include the power to control action. Someone who wished to deny that human beings have power over their conduct, but are still morally accountable, might note, for instance, that one of the primary purposes of certain forms of pu

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