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    It is not the case that Retributivism's claim to unique intuitive support fails if competing theories accommodate the same moral data without positing backward-looking desert obligations.

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    • 1.Competing theories may accommodate some moral data but miss retributivism's distinctive intuition: wrongdoers deserve suffering irrespective of consequences.
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    • 2.The ability to explain outcomes differently doesn't establish equivalent intuitive plausibility; retributivism may better capture why punishment feels *just*.
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    • 3.Backward-looking desert may be foundational, not eliminable; intuitive support could rest on deep moral convictions no alternative fully captures.
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    • 1.Consequentialist theories can explain punishment's deterrent effects without invoking desert, matching retributivism's practical outcomes.
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    • 2.If two theories equally predict all observable moral judgments, parsimony favors the simpler theory without additional metaphysical commitments.
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    • 3.Intuitive support requires uniqueness; if multiple theories equally accommodate our convictions, none has special intuitive justification.
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