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    It is not the case that This moral-debt version of retributivism faces significant challenges.

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    • 1.It is unclear what the nature of the moral good is.
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    • 2.It is unclear how the offender takes this moral good from the victim.
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    • 3.It is unclear how punishment denies this good to the offender.
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    • 1.Morris (1968) grounds retributive debt in unfair advantage: crime gives offenders benefits of norm-breaking others forgo, creating a measurable imbalance.
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    • 2.Punishment restores fairness by removing this advantage, but this redistribution targets the offender's standing, not any good actually taken from the victim.
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    • 3.The victim-creditor role is therefore conceptually incoherent: debts owed to 'society' cannot simultaneously constitute debts owed to specific harmed individuals.
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    • 1.Metaphors of moral debt require fungibility: one must be able to transfer, quantify, and discharge the relevant good, but suffering is not fungible across persons.
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    • 2.Nozick's retributive 'connection to correct values' framework shows punishment communicates normative correction, not transactional debt repayment to a creditor.
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    • 3.If punishment's justifying function is communicative rather than transactional, the moral-debt model misidentifies punishment's structure and collapses into expressivist theory.
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