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    Challenges→The retributive intuition that wrongdoers deserve punishment is widely shared among people.

    If the retributive intuition is best explained as a heuristic for consequentialist social coordination, its apparent independence from consequences is illusory.

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    • 1.Humans lack reliable introspective access to the deep sources of their moral intuitions.
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    • 2.Retributive punishment historically correlates with societies that achieved greater cooperation and lower crime rates.
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    • 3.If retribution were truly independent of consequences, we'd expect it across all contexts regardless of social outcomes.
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    • 1.Many people maintain retributive commitments even when they demonstrably harm social coordination and cooperation.
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    • 2.A heuristic's effectiveness at producing good consequences doesn't explain why it feels intrinsically right to us.
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    • 3.Retributive intuitions appear in contexts where consequentialist coordination offers no advantage explanation.
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