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    It is not the case that Sanction utilitarianism faces an infinite regress of sanctions

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    Reasons For

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    • 1.Sanction utilitarianism holds that any action is wrong to which one ought to attach sanctions
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    • 2.Imposing sanctions is itself a kind of action
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    • 3.The general criterion implies that the rightness of applying a sanction must be evaluated by asking whether it would be right to sanction the failure to apply that sanction
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    • 1.Mill's account defines wrongness via sanctions, making 'ought to sanction' itself subject to the same sanction-dependent analysis recursively.
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    • 2.Each iteration generates a new normative question about sanctioning the previous level, and no terminal level exists where sanction-talk bottoms out.
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    • 3.Without a foundational non-sanction-based criterion to halt the regress, the account lacks determinate content at every level simultaneously.
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    • 1.Bradley's critique in Ethical Studies shows that defining obligation through external enforcement displaces rather than grounds the original normative fact.
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    • 2.If the rightness of a sanction must itself be sanctioned to be obligatory, then no first-order duty is ever genuinely established, only deferred indefinitely.
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