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    Treating someone as a responsible agent whose choices war... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Consequentialist punishment fails to respect the person punished as an autonomous moral agent.

    Treating someone as a responsible agent whose choices warrant deterrent responses presupposes, rather than negates, their status as an autonomous moral agent.

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    • 1.Deterrence treats violations of norms as meaningful choices, implying the agent could have done otherwise—core to autonomy.
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    • 2.Only beings capable of rational deliberation can be deterred; applying deterrence therefore presupposes rational agency.
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    • 3.Respecting autonomy requires holding agents accountable for choices; accountability through consequences affirms their moral status.
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    • 1.Deterrence focuses on future compliance through fear, which can override rational deliberation rather than presuppose it.
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    • 2.We deter animals and non-autonomous systems effectively; deterrent systems don't require or assume genuine moral agency.
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    • 3.Presupposing autonomy and actually respecting it are distinct; deterrence can instrumentally use agents without honoring their status.
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