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reprehensible
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Disproportionate or disparate punishments are unjust, not because they fail to requite suffering with suffering, but because they impose a degree of penal censure on offenders that is not warranted by the comparative reprehensibleness of their criminal conduct.
14) 3 Generally, the Minnesota Supreme Court has insisted that aggravating and mitigating factors should relate to the degree of reprehensibleness of the criminal conduct in the particular case.
As we have just seen, however, coming to understand that reprehensibility is "typical" of acts of lying need not be the same thing as deciding that reprehensibleness is also a prototypical property of, and so foundational to, the actual meaning of "lie.
 
 
 
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