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    It is not the case that The retributive intuition that wrongdoers deserve punishment is widely shared among people.

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    • 1.Moral intuitions vary systematically across cultures, historical periods, and social positions, undermining claims of universality.
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    • 2.Cross-cultural studies (e.g., Darley & Shulman) show restorative rather than retributive intuitions dominate in many non-Western societies.
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    • 3.A widely shared intuition rooted in evolutionary psychology or social conditioning carries no independent normative authority.
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    • 1.Rawls argues in 'Two Concepts of Rules' that retributive intuitions track a practice-rule of punishment justified ultimately by social utility, not desert.
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    • 2.If the retributive intuition is best explained as a heuristic for consequentialist social coordination, its apparent independence from consequences is illusory.
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    • 3.Moore's incapacitated rapist case stipulates away all consequences artificially, producing intuitions that may not generalize to real penal practice.
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    • 1.The vast majority of people share the retributive intuition.
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    • 2.In the case of the incapacitated rapist, the widely shared intuition is that he should be punished even if doing so is expected to produce no consequentialist good distinct from him getting the punishment he deserves.
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