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Re:Hitman hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman who... by dragonwriter on Saturday October 26, 2019 @02:48PM (#21365466)
> Maybe this makes sense if you think of the punishment as having a deterrent component and a retributive component.

It also makes sense if one rejects retribution as illegimate but accepts proportionality as a basis for limiting on punishment. (Many doctrines of criminal punishment accept both retribution as a goal and proportionality as a limit, so...)

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Re:Hitman hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman who... by dodobirdlord on Saturday October 26, 2019 @06:35PM (#21366692)
Proportionality on outcome or proportionality on intent? If the assassin's gun misfires nobody is harmed. A punishment proportional to the outcome would be no punishment at all. But a punishment proportional to intent should not distinguish between the scenarios where the gun does and does not misfire.
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