Did you read Jeremy’s article on justice? It’s very good.
One bit reminded me of something else I’d just read. Serendipity kind of thing. This bit reminded me.
If this is right, it does not follow that one cannot account for the existence of retributive feelings. Mackie, for example, employed Darwinian principles in order to explain their ubiquity and persistence. His argument was roughly this: individuals achieved an evolutionary advantage to the extent that resentment of injuries became a deeply ingrained psychological disposition in their personality structures; this disposition was then universalized for broadly sociological reasons, so that certain harms came to be cooperatively resented, which is the mark of retributivism generally.
It reminded me of this article in … Read the rest