This Kantian positive duty to punish cannot be assimilated to negative retributivism's purely instrumental justification without distorting the deontological structure that grounds the entire theory.

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Assimilated(as used in philosophical analysis): Combined or merged together so that one thing is absorbed into another.
Deontological(as used in moral philosophy): An approach to ethics that focuses on whether actions follow rules and duties, rather than on whether they produce good outcomes.
Instrumental justification(as used in ethics): Justifying something based on whether it achieves a useful goal or outcome, rather than on principles about right and wrong.
Kantian: "Kantian" refers to the ideas of Immanuel Kant, an 18th-century German philosopher who fundamentally changed how we think about knowledge and morality. Kant argued that our minds actively shape what we experience in the world (rather than passively receiving information) and that we have a universal moral duty to act according to principles we'd want everyone to follow. His influence is so widespread that "Kantian" is used today to describe any approach to ethics or thinking that emphasizes reason, universal principles, and treating people as ends in themselves rather than as means to an end.

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