Self-Quiz 4.15: Igor Primoratz, Justifying Legal Punishment

Moral Problems

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Retributivism is the view that the harshness of a punishment should be based on

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Some claim that capital punishment is contradictory. Primoratz claims that this objection

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The claim that execution is proportional to murder relies on the assumption that all human lives are roughly equal in

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According to Primoratz, we treat all human lives, qua human lives, as equally valuable because

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According to Primoratz, what is a greater injustice than mistakenly sentencing an innocent person to death?

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Why doesn't Primoratz think that capital punishment violates the criminal's right to life?

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How does Primoratz respond to the objection that the death penalty is applied in a discriminatory way?

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