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    It is not the case that The more tenuous the connection to a rights violation, and the less culpable the mental state, the more controversial punishment for an act or omission becomes.

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    • 1.Strict liability offenses (e.g., statutory rape, regulatory violations) are legitimately punished despite minimal culpability, grounding punishment in harm prevention rather than mental state.
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    • 2.Hart and Honoré's causal responsibility framework shows legal systems routinely treat outcome-based accountability as sufficient justification independent of subjective intent.
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    • 3.If strict liability punishment is legitimate, culpability gradient cannot be the primary axis determining punishment's controversiality.
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    • 1.Consequentialist traditions from Bentham onward ground punishment's justification in deterrence and social utility, making rights-violation centrality a question-begging assumption favoring retributivism.
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    • 2.On a deterrence view, acts with tenuous rights-connections but high social harm (e.g., reckless environmental pollution) may warrant stronger punishment than intentional minor rights violations.
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    • 1.The paradigmatic wrong for which punishment seems appropriate is an intentional or knowing violation of the important rights of another, such as murder or rape.
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    • 2.An attempt to do the same is almost as clearly a proper basis for punishment.
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