#15 — Michael Sandel | The Tyranny of Merit
Within Reason
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The Inconsistency of Retributive Justice
I can't help seeing an inconsistency here though, in the view that there can be room for retributive justice at all. There will still be people who will commit crimes like that purely just because they are malicious people. And so how can there be any room to say you deserve this when every single factor that goes in to creating a criminal or someone who does something bad even is out of their control? I think it's parallel with the case of economic rewards and who deserves what.
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