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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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