Sentence examples for deserved suffering from inspiring English sources

The phrase "deserved suffering" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
Example: The criminal's actions caused much deserved suffering for his victims and their families.

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Testimonial injustice occurs when a speaker is given less credibility than deserved (suffering a credibility deficit) because of an identity prejudice held by the hearer.

Of course, it would be better if there were no occasion to inflict suffering, but given that a wrong has been committed, inflicting deserved suffering in response is better than not doing so (Hegel 1821: §99; Zaibert 2006: 20062006.

Retributivists think that deserved suffering should be distinguished from non-deserved suffering.

On the long list of its pernicious effects, undeserved pardons--which, after all, merely relieve the deserved suffering of a few individuals--do not rank especially high.

The Victorian visionary George MacDonald thus put it this way: "Punishment, or deserved suffering, is no equipoise to sin.

But this implies that the morally appropriate response to deserved suffering is simple pleasure, which does not seem right; the better response mixes satisfaction that justice is being done with pain at the infliction of pain, as Moore's holistic view implies.

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Really, I am a piece of shit, and every time I complained in prison about how unbonerable I was living, I tried to remember that there were so many people in worse situations than me who didn't even do anything wrong to deserve suffering.

Ireland coach Joe Schmidt said his team hadn't got the reward they deserved after suffering a heartbreaking 24-22 defeat by the All Blacks in Dublin.

We make the other person out to be deserving of suffering.

It is understandable that courts, fearing that if even one deserving plaintiff suffering purely economic loss were allowed to recover, all such plaintiffs could recover, have anchored their rulings to the physical harm requirement.

But maybe, just maybe, the summit will help to encourage new foreign investments and kindle a revival that Iraq desperately needs, and deserves after suffering so much and for so long.

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