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"Children have to share in their parents' destiny to some extent, like it or not," is part of Cusk's mitigation – though her deeper justification seems to be a vocation for fearless truth-telling, come what may.
Beyond just the facts of his case, Mr. Rajaratnam's memo offers a deeper justification for a lighter sentence: his crime did not involve any identifiable victims, nor did it cause the kind of harm inflicted on investors by the likes of Bernard L. Madoff or such corporate chieftains as Jeffrey K. Skilling of Enron or Bernard Ebbers of WorldCom.
For a discussion of the prospects for deeper justification, see section 5. Two background concepts should be addressed before saying more about retributive justice: (1) punishment, and (2) the sorts of wrongs for which punishment might be thought deserved.
According to this "fact of reason" version, we seem to have a particular moral law forced on us in our mental lives and we are unable to give any deeper justification of this moral law it is just a fact that we have to accept.
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Further, deeper justifications in terms of esoteric philosophical theory would, of course, be welcome, but only insofar as they remained consistent in principle with public "mid-level" justifications of the same policies.
Eudaimonists hold that every act that an agent performs either is or should be taken for the sake of his own happiness and that there is, or should be, no deeper practical justification for so acting.
Gone was the doom of austerity and the justification of deep welfare cuts, with its sharp distinction between the deserving and underserving.
By combining accountability for reasonableness with the diamond model, we developed a transdisciplinary model of priority setting that has a solid ethical justification and deep empirical roots so it is more easily put into practice in a particular context (see Figure 2).
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