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    Retributive justice is an appealing theory of punishment. — Carmelics
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    Retributive justice is an appealing theory of punishment.

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    • 1.Retributive justice has direct intuitive support.
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    • 2.Retributive justice provides a better account of when punishment is justifiable than alternative accounts of punishment.
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    • 3.Retributive justice can be tied to deeper moral principles.
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    • 1.Retributive intuitions about deserved suffering are products of evolved revenge psychology, not reliable moral tracking mechanisms.
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    • 2.Moral intuitions with identifiable non-epistemic causal origins lose their evidential weight for grounding normative theories.
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    • 3.Therefore, the intuitive appeal cited as direct support for retributivism undermines rather than vindicates its normative authority.
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    • 1.Kant's retributivism, the tradition's strongest philosophical grounding, presupposes libertarian free will that most contemporary philosophers reject.
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    • 2.Without robust agent-causation, the foundational claim that offenders categorically deserve suffering for past acts becomes incoherent.
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    • 3.A theory whose deepest moral justification collapses under mainstream metaphysical commitments cannot be deemed straightforwardly appealing.
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    The appeal of retributive justice as a theory of punishment rests in part on direct intuitive support, in part on the claim that it provides a better account of when punishment is justifiable than alternative accounts of punishment, and in part on arguments tying it to deeper moral principles.
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    Validity: The passage explicitly states that the appeal of retributive justice rests on these three factors, and the extracted argument faithfully represents this by using them as premises supporting the conclusion that retributive justice is an appealing theory of punishment.

    Confidence: The text explicitly lists three grounds for the appeal of retributive justice as a theory of punishment.

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