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ABSTRACT

Recent years have seen an increase in consumers boycotting businesses, as well as businesses refusing service to particular individuals, in response to their political activities, such as their contributions to morally objectionable causes or candidates. One objection to these sorts of social punishments is that they violate their targets’ “right to do wrong.” In this paper, I will defend the claim that some (but only some) forms of social punishment can be compatible with a right to do wrong.