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America loves what is mistakenly referred to as Retributive Justice.
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America loves what is mistakenly referred to as Retributive Justice.
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Retributive justice is a good example of something that plenty of people might argue – some pretty coherently – to be fair.
Morality and the liberal Alix Mortimer 2009
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From "My Case For Retributive Action," the story of a man starting a new job in foggy town on the wrong side of an ill-defined border:
Nick Antosca: A Great Book You Maybe Haven't Read: Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti 2009
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Murphy, J.G. (1999), ˜Moral Epistemology, the Retributive Emotions, and the “Clumsy Moral Philosophy” of Jesus Christ™.
Legal Punishment Duff, Antony 2008
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Retributive vengeance on the dead, as well as the living, was a duty inculcated by the religion of those barbarous times which not only taught that evil inflicted on the author of evil was a solace to the injured man; but made the welfare of the soul after death dependent on the fate of the body from which it had separated.
The Iliad of Homer 2003
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Retributive justice, as the motive force of tragedy, has for us lost its meaning.
The Principles of Aesthetics Dewitt H. Parker
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Retributive pains, by fire and steel, are also supposed to have been detected among the paintings.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various
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Retributive justice in the awful death of Lilburn Lewis;
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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Punishment of Prometheus; Retributive justice of the gods; The taking of an oath; The name "Helen"; Beacon fires from Troy to
Mosaics of Grecian History Marcius Willson
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