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    It is not the case that If retributive intuitions about desert are themselves explained and vindicated by their role in sustaining cooperative social order, the goods punishment tracks are not 'independently identifiable' from retributive considerations.

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    • 1.A belief's evolutionary origin or social utility doesn't determine whether its referent (desert, justice) exists independently.
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    • 2.Retributive intuitions could be reliable trackers of independently real moral facts about culpability and proportionality.
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    • 3.Deterrence and rehabilitation are identifiable as distinct social goods without appeal to retributive desert concepts.
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    • 1.Retributive intuitions about proportional desert evolved because they solved coordination problems in reciprocal societies.
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    • 2.If a moral concept's justification derives entirely from social functionality, it lacks independent normative grounding.
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    • 3.Punishment's alleged goods (deterrence, rehabilitation, incapacitation) are identifiable only through retributive framing.
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