Wrongdoers Deserve to Suffer
A cheeky defence of the obvious
In general, wrongdoers deserve to suffer.
To me, that’s as plain as the nose on my face. But for some, this claim smacks of a cold, barbaric retributivism. Derek Parfit—perhaps the greatest moral philosopher of all time—found the view that wrongdoers deserve to suffer morally incomprehensible. After watching Hitler do a happy jig after successfully stor…
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