Excuse, justification and collapse

Figures & data

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Unjustified criminal damage	Pro	Contra	Wrongness/Culpability
Ordinary reasonable assessment of reasons	0	10	10

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Fully excused criminal damage	Pro	Contra	Wrongness/Culpability
The weights we can fairly and humanely expect Jack to attach	0	0	0

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Partially excused criminal damage	Pro	Contra	Wrongness/Culpability
The weights we can fairly and humanely expect one to attach	0	5	5

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Unjustified wrong (Theft)	Pro	Contra	Wrongness/Culpability [ = Contra – Pro]
Ordinary reasonable assessment of reasons	20	50	30

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Fully excused theft	Pro	Contra	Culpability [ = Contra – Pro, bottoming out at zero]
The weights we can fairly and humanely expect to be attached	20	18	0

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Partially excused theft	Pro	Contra	Culpability
The weights we can fairly and humanely expect to be attached	20	25	5

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Fran’s and Frank’s justified defensive killings	Pro	Contra	Wrongness/Culpability [ = Contra – Pro, bottoming out at 0]
The ordinary reasonable assessment of reasons in Fran’s case	40	5 [ =  100/20]	0
The ordinary reasonable assessment of reasons in Frank’s case	100	15 [ =  300/20]	0