> Only the actual harms matter to me. Like you, I'm also a consequentialist. Not everyone else is! > So the penalty is vengeance rather than deterrence. It i

> Only the actual harms matter to me. Like you, I'm also a consequentialist. Not everyone else is! > So the penalty is vengeance rather than deterrence. It is neither vengeance nor deterrence. It is (supposed to be) protection of the public from this (supposedly) dangerous individual.