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    Challenges→Reid's second argument for moral liberty fails if the sole purposes of punishment are preventative rather than retributive

    Retributive intuitions are not eliminable add-ons to punishment but constitutive features of the moral practice that gives punishment its meaning, as Strawson's 'Freedom and Resentment' demonstrates.

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    'Freedom and Resentment'(as referenced in this statement)
    A famous 1962 essay by Strawson arguing that our ability to resent and hold people responsible is a core part of human relationships and morality.
    Eliminable(showing that things can seem necessary but actually aren't)
    Able to be removed or gotten rid of without actually losing anything important; replaceable.
    Moral practice(as used in ethics)
    The actual way people behave and make decisions about right and wrong in their daily lives.
    P.F. Strawson(as the author of 'Freedom and Resentment')
    A 20th-century British philosopher famous for analyzing how we actually think and talk about everyday things like freedom and blame, rather than abstract theories.
    Retributive intuitions

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    Our gut feeling that wrongdoers should be punished simply because they did something bad, without needing another reason.
    constitutive features(as used in philosophy and cognitive science)
    Essential, built-in characteristics that are fundamental to something's nature—not accidents or bugs, but core parts of what something is.

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