Pragmatism

"...the correspondence theory of truth. This is the view that a claim about something is true if, and only if, that thing is really (that is to say, objectively or independently) the way that it is claimed to be. Pragmatism is a rival theory of truth that waters down the requirement for truth. It is roughly the view that truth belongs to those beliefs that steer us through life most efficiently...However, the pragmatist’s view of truth is self-refuting, because pragmatism cannot and yet must put itself forward as true by the higher standard it rejects. Consider that the pragmatic theory of truth, if applied to itself, would require that the truth of pragmatism is itself merely pragmatic in character." (Arnold Zuboff. https://philosophynow.org/issues/106/Theories_That_Refute_Themselves)

Put simply: the pragmatic rapist telling the Judge "it's what worked best for me," is still going to be punished because he is both absurd and wrong.