1) What is the justification for punishment? Explain how a utilitarian, a retributive, and a teleological
retributive might each answer this question.
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2) Hart argues that the question of how punishment can be justified actually conflates at least two
questions: how can the overall system of punishment be justified, and how should punishment be
distributed. Explain how Hart would answer these two questions, and how he would criticize the utilitarian
view and the retributivist view, using at least one example of each view from 0
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