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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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