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The Felt Beneath the Table
The provided text explores the hidden philosophical infrastructure of retributive justice, focusing on how the concepts of fairness and commensurability dictate legal outcomes. The author argues that fairness is not an objective metric but a rhetorical tool used to legitimise systemic decisions after they have already been made. Central to this process is commensurability, the mandatory assumption that diverse human harms can be quantified on a single mathematical scale. This framework creates a scalar model of value that suppresses alternative perspectives, such as the belief that certain…
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