Questions tagged [state]

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If we value free agency, how can punishment - the state's deprivation of a person's free agency - be justified ?

Starting with the supposition that we want to allow humans free agency, insofar as it does not infringe upon the free agency of others, what punishments can a state impose that do not make it guilty of the same infringement? In other words, is it…
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