<DIV>A deep question. Read Arthur Ripstein's book, he's the best on that. jks<BR><BR><B><I>Luke Weiger <lweiger@umich.edu></I></B> wrote:
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<DIV>Justin wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV>> Learn to read, Bill, I didn't say he did these awful things because he's different. I said he's </DIV>
<DIV>> different because he did these awful things. I am perfectly aware that it's not that hard to get </DIV>
<DIV>> people who might have been decent to do terrible things, that they do not do these things </DIV>
<DIV>> because they are a different or lesser order of being. But having done them, which you or I </DIV>
<DIV>> might have done, but didn't do, he's different and worse, indeed, worthless, because he did </DIV>
<DIV>> them. It was the doing of them that makes him worse and worthy of disgrace and punishment, > and eligible for death. </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've never understood this line of reasoning, although it's probably required to make sense of retributivism. How is it that moral luck can determine deserts?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-- Luke</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><p><hr SIZE=1>
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