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The Desert Case

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The desert case for punishment: the guilty deserve proportional penalty as an intrinsically fitting response to wrongdoing — forward benefits neither needed nor sufficient.

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Kant's inheritance: punish because the crime merited it, or admit the sentence uses the sentenced. Desert answers to the past alone.