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    Is is not that a principle of justice exists that support... — Carmelics
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    Is is not that a principle of justice exists that supports ECT

    Eternal Conscious Torment
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    • 1.Lex Talionis requires proportionality between offense and punishment, demanding equivalence in kind and duration.
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    • 2.No finite temporal offense can generate an equivalent infinite punishment under a proportionality framework.
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    • 3.Therefore Lex Talionis, properly applied, logically prohibits rather than supports ECT.
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    • 1.Kant's retributivism, the most rigorous justice framework, grounds punishment in restoring rational moral order, not maximizing suffering.
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    • 2.ECT produces infinite suffering with no restorative or equilibrating function, violating the Kantian requirement that punishment respect rational agency.
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    • 3.No coherent retributive principle can justify punishment that categorically exceeds any restorable moral debt.
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    • Lex Talionis supports ECT
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    • If the above is true, then a princple of justice exists that supports ECT
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