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Punishment positively affects the wrongdoer's future behavior, or at the very least, the fear of punishment will prevent others from doing the same. Stace states that punishment is based on the idea that a person's behavior is determined by a cause.

Without causes for a person's actions, anything done in response to their unacceptable behavior, be it reward or punishment, is futile. Futility results in the realization that nothing can influence their behavior, and consequently moral responsibility disappears. To be held accountable is to be justly punished or rewarded, if punishment is appropriate, so is responsibility.

So basically, it all boils down to moral responsibility.

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