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    Moore's incapacitated rapist case stipulates away all con... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The retributive intuition that wrongdoers deserve punishment is widely shared among people.

    Moore's incapacitated rapist case stipulates away all consequences artificially, producing intuitions that may not generalize to real penal practice.

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    • 1.Thought experiments isolating variables distort real-world trade-offs; incapacitation without collateral harms isn't achievable in practice.
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    • 2.Intuitions from artificial cases risk endorsing policies that ignore documented social costs: family separation, recidivism effects, systemic bias.
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    • 3.Philosophy must ground normative claims in implementable institutions, not hypothetical scenarios divorced from institutional constraints.
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    • 1.Stipulating away consequences is standard philosophical method for isolating moral principles from empirical contingencies.
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    • 2.If intuitions about the incapacitation case fail to generalize, that suggests the principle itself is unstable, not that the method is flawed.
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    • 3.Real penal practice involves many other variables; dismissing cases as artificial risks paralyzing ethics with demands for total realism.
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