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DRussellKraftFirstPaper 13 - 03 Mar 2010 - Main.StephenSevero
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- My concern isn't so much with thinking both thoughts, but more about making both explicit. The space limitation makes it difficult, but I think a simple sentence might help clarify the point. Maybe something along the lines "While it restricts the vengeance of the harmed, it also justifies, even requires, a certain state response." I agree with your reference to the bible, and I think a link would help support the point. There's a lot you could use, but I think Deuteronomy 19 would work nicely. -- StephenSevero - 28 Feb 2010
- I've tossed in a link as you suggest, but I think my first sentence under Kant says essentially that, no? Maybe I'm just unclear (/unable to get quite outside of my own writing yet), and something better might still come to me. -- DRussellKraft - 28 Feb 2010
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- I see what you're saying. I think the idea is contained partially in each statement; it might help reinforcement to say it in each statement. In your parenthetical exegesis of justification for third party action, maybe add in requires. For your Kant paragraph, perhaps adding in "a measured" or even "determinate" before "punishment" to bring the second sentence into the first. Also, I'm not sure if you can work this in, but I just realized that in "limiting crime", the personal vendetta is also a crime to be limited. Not that the idea is novel, but that it would even come to be as a realization and not be blatantly obvious - seems related to Glover's point about punishing someone else to make us righteous. -- StephenSevero - 2 Mar 2010
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- I also realize now that my conclusion sounds mighty flippant, and that there are much better reasons to suggest what I suggest. Starting from a modified premise might help the next revision of this. -- DRussellKraft - 28 Feb 2010
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