I have little of essense to add to CS Lewis' essay below. The short of it is that the deterrent/preventive justice dehumanizes the offender and excludes the possibility of mercy; furthermore, if justice is not retributive, it undermines equality of people (as lex talonis is based on the notion that the value of what you have done onto another is
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I agree with Lewis and Shkrobius: justice must be retributive.
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