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...The purposeful and gratuitous inculcation of despair is not the content of any moral message that I would recognize as such, and I suspect Professors Holland and Berns would agree...
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...C 0 R R E S P 0 N D E N C E Against Capital Punishment Walter Berns' For Capital Punishment: CHine and the Morality of the Death Penalty and Maurice J. Holland's favorable review of it in your pages (December 1979) invite the sympathetically critical discussion which the book has thus far failed to receive...
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...But this formalistic response does not satisfy the substantive dimensions of the question...
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...Immanuel Kant, one of the major proponents of retributivism, acknowledged that some literalist punishments-such as those for rape and pederasty--are themselves crimes against humanity and hence beyond the authority of the state to impose...
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