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    Retributive justice requires proportionality: punishment ... — Carmelics
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    Supports→If people are tortured forever in Hell with utmost intensity, either they must have committed infinitely evil crimes, or their ECT torturing must be inconsistent with the justice of God

    Retributive justice requires proportionality: punishment must be commensurate in magnitude with the gravity of the offense (Kant, Metaphysics of Morals).

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    • 1.Without proportionality constraints, punishment becomes arbitrary and subject to abuse by those wielding state power.
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    • 2.Proportionality respects offenders as moral agents: it treats them as deserving consequences linked to their culpable choices.
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    • 3.Victims experience proportional punishment as legitimate moral vindication of their wrongful harm.
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    • 1.Proportionality presumes commensurability: we cannot objectively measure whether, say, 8 years equals a specific moral wrong.
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    • 2.Proportionality may ignore consequentialist benefits: severe punishment might deter future crimes more effectively than proportional sentences.
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    • 3.Determining 'gravity' depends on subjective cultural and individual values, undermining proportionality's claim to objective justification.
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