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    The damned gain nothing through everlasting torment — Carmelics
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    The damned gain nothing through everlasting torment

    Against an aspect of GodEternal Conscious Torment
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    • 1.Gain requires improvement or acquisition of goods; eternal punishment involves neither rehabilitation nor benefit.
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    • 2.A just punishment should serve a purpose (deterrence, rehabilitation, restitution); purposeless torment is inherently unjust.
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    • 3.If suffering produces no change in the damned and no benefit to others, it constitutes pointless cruelty.
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