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    It is not the case that Punishment is justified as an intrinsically appropriate response to wrongdoing because it is deserved.

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    • 1.P.F. Strawson and consequentialists argue that reactive attitudes like indignation ground punishment in emotional responses, not metaphysical desert.
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    • 2.If desert is reducible to socially contingent reactive attitudes, punishment cannot be intrinsically appropriate independent of its social effects.
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    • 3.A response that derives its legitimacy entirely from contingent attitudes is justified instrumentally, not intrinsically.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Desert claims require an independent criterion of proportionality, but retributivism provides no non-circular standard for matching punishment to wrongdoing.
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    • 2.Without such a standard, 'deserved punishment' reduces to an intuitive judgment that cannot justify any specific penal practice.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Wrongdoing deserves punishment.
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    • 2.A deserved response to wrongdoing is intrinsically appropriate.
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