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Justice Before the Law (with Michael Huemer)

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The Theory of Punishment, Is It Legitimate?

Most murderers, even murderers, age out of murder and don't indo being serial murderers. They might kill once in a crime of pas d, but by the time they're 35, they're not really a riskity more. So it's more like the ted bundle. And there's some deterrence of fact from o punishing people. But social scientists say that most of the deterrencof fact has to do with the certainty of actually getting caught,. rather than the severity of the punishment.

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