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A criminal says to a judge "If you were a criminal in my situation, you wouldn't want to be jailed. So you can't consistently hold that your ought to jail me." The criminal is

    { 1 } - confusing "If I were a criminal I'd then (as a criminal) desire to be punished" with "I (now) desire that if I were a criminal then I be punished."
    { 2 } - ignoring other parties (such as his past and future victims).
    { 3 } - both of the above.

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1 is wrong. Please try again.

A criminal says to a judge "If you were a criminal in my situation, you wouldn't want to be jailed. So you can't consistently hold that your ought to jail me." The criminal is

To test the judge's present consistency, we need the second form -- the one about her present desire about how she be treated in a hypothetical case.

But there's another problem with the criminal's reasoning.

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2 is wrong. Please try again.

A criminal says to a judge "If you were a criminal in my situation, you wouldn't want to be jailed. So you can't consistently hold that your ought to jail me." The criminal is

    { 1 } - confusing "If I were a criminal I'd then (as a criminal) desire to be punished" with "I (now) desire that if I were a criminal then I be punished."
    { 2 } - ignoring other parties (such as his past and future victims).
    { 3 } - both of the above.

The judge has to desire some action to be done regardless of where she imagines herself in the situation.

But there's another problem with the criminal's reasoning.

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3 is correct!

A criminal says to a judge "If you were a criminal in my situation, you wouldn't want to be jailed. So you can't consistently hold that your ought to jail me." The criminal is

    { 1 } - confusing "If I were a criminal I'd then (as a criminal) desire to be punished" with "I (now) desire that if I were a criminal then I be punished."
    { 2 } - ignoring other parties (such as his past and future victims).
    { 3 } - both of the above.

The judge must make a decision that she can desire to be followed regardless of where she considers herself in the situation (as judge, criminal, past victim, or future victim). If she does this, she'll presumably desire that criminals be put in jail -- and thus that if she were a criminal then she'd be put in jail.

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