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    Without robust agent-causation, the foundational claim th... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Retributive justice is an appealing theory of punishment.

    Without robust agent-causation, the foundational claim that offenders categorically deserve suffering for past acts becomes incoherent.

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    • 1.Moral desert requires that agents could have acted otherwise; without agent-causation, determinism makes alternative possibilities impossible.
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    • 2.Punishment justified by retribution assumes the offender is a responsible originator of harm, not merely a link in a causal chain.
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    • 3.If past acts are fully determined by prior conditions, holding someone solely accountable for them conflates causation with moral responsibility.
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    • 1.Desert can attach to responsible agency without libertarian free will; compatibilist accounts ground desert in actual decision-making capacities.
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    • 2.The claim confuses metaphysical conditions for desert with epistemic justification; we needn't resolve free will to justify proportional punishment.
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    • 3.Even if agent-causation fails, social practices of accountability remain functionally necessary and rationally defensible independent of metaphysics.
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