Nobody "deserves" anything. There are either good consequential reasons to punish people or there aren't. Desert is irrelevant. Everyone was born with a set of traits and preferences which ultimately dictate 100% of their behavior and is merely (un)lucky to be who they are.
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Ftr, I was never a fan of virtue ethics and I don't think values are merely social programming. I think they're a mix of innate biology and environment.
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I suspect the interesting part of values are what is not biology. If I have an intrinsic dislike for violence because it is emotionally exhausting despite paying off, values are what is going to offset that one way or the other, if the individual is susceptible to the programming
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