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    Punishment of wrongdoers is justified by the moral desert... — Carmelics
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    Punishment of wrongdoers is justified by the moral desert of the offender.

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    • Wrongdoers morally deserve punishment for their wrongful acts.
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    • 1.Desert claims require a robust notion of free will that is undermined by deterministic causal accounts of human behavior.
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    • 2.If an offender's wrongful act is the product of factors beyond their control, the moral basis for desert collapses.
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    • 3.Neuroscientific and social-scientific evidence increasingly supports causal explanations that erode the control required for genuine desert.
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    • 1.Rawls argued that natural talents and social circumstances are morally arbitrary, and character is shaped by both.
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    • 2.If an agent's disposition to offend is substantially constituted by morally arbitrary factors, punishing them for acting on that disposition cannot be justified by desert alone.
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    • 3.A just institutional practice must be justified by its forward-looking effects on social cooperation, not backward-looking metaphysical desert.
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    SEP: justice-retributive
    Michael Moore (1997: 87)
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    Positive retributivism, or simply “retributivism”, involves both positive and negative desert claims. The positive desert claim holds that wrongdoers morally deserve punishment for their wrongful acts (see section 4.6 for a discussion of the deontic and consequentialist dimensions of this). This claim comes in stronger and weaker versions. For example, Michael Moore (1997: 87) writes: “Retributivism … is the view that punishment is justified by the desert of the offender”. Jeffrie Murphy (2007: 11) is more pluralistic, writing: “[A] retributivist is a person who believes that the primary jus...
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    Validity: The passage directly presents the positive desert claim that wrongdoers morally deserve punishment, and cites Michael Moore's view that "punishment is justified by the desert of the offender," which matches the extracted argument's structure of moving from moral desert to justification of punishment.

    Confidence: This is Moore's explicit formulation of retributivism as reported in the text.

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