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    Supports→It is not that someone has committed an infinitely evil crime

    Retributive justice requires proportionality between the desert of the agent and the punishment imposed, meaning infinite punishment tracks infinite culpability in the agent, not merely the dignity of the victim.

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    Culpability(in ethics and moral responsibility)
    The degree to which someone is responsible or deserves blame for something they did.
    Dignity of the victim(as contrasted with the agent's culpability in this statement)
    The inherent worth and respect owed to the person who was harmed; some justice theories focus on restoring or honoring this rather than just punishing the wrongdoer.
    Proportionality(One of the standard conditions for Jus Ad Bellum)
    The requirement that the ends to be secured by going to war would warrant the costs and harms of waging it.
    desert(Cited as a backward-looking basis for justice that utilitarianism cannot straightforwardly accommodate.)
    What a person merits or is owed based on their past actions or conduct.
    retributive justice

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    The principle that those who culpably cause harm should suffer the censure and deprivations constitutive of punishment

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