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    It is important to punish wrongdoers with proportional hard treatment, even if no other good would thereby be brought about.

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    • 1.Most people intuitively think that it is important to punish wrongdoers with proportional hard treatment, even if no other good would thereby be brought about.
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    • 2.There is no reason to doubt that these intuitions are reliable.
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    • 1.Moral intuitions about punishment are shaped by retributive emotions like vengeance, which evolutionary debunking arguments show are unreliable guides to moral truth.
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    • 2.When an intuition's causal origin is better explained by adaptive fitness than by moral truth-tracking, we have strong reason to distrust it.
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    • 3.Therefore, the widespread intuition favoring proportional hard treatment lacks the epistemic foundation needed to justify inflicting suffering on a person.
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    • 1.On Kant's own retributive framework, punishment is justified only insofar as it respects the rational agency of the wrongdoer, not merely because suffering balances a moral ledger.
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    • 2.Inflicting hard treatment that produces no good for society, victim, or offender fails to treat the wrongdoer as a rational end in themselves and reduces punishment to pure suffering.
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    • 3.A retributivism that cannot articulate what positive value the suffering realizes collapses into gratuitous cruelty, which even Kant's categorical imperative cannot license.
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    The argument here has two prongs. First, most people intuitively think that it is important to punish wrongdoers with proportional hard treatment, even if no other good would thereby be brought about. Second, there is no reason to doubt that these intuitions are reliable.

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