Free Will - Yes/No?

[pocaracas]

Poc: I think I get what you're generally trying to say.

But the argument "don't send people to prison" is clearly assuming that we "should" do it for reasons other than it's an inevitable conclusion. If that was the case, the whole argument would be redundant anyway.

The argument is clearly aimed at a group of people with free will, holding judgement over those without. But it forgets that the first group are no exception to the premise.

I must have missed the "don't send people to prison" argument...
People are put in prisons because their biology leads them to act in harmful ways.
For some, that time-out, or punishment, is deterrent from repeating the behavior.... it's an extra piece of info that goes into the decision making process.
For most, sadly, it is not... but we do not know how to change someone's biology, do we?... so we go for that very indirect way.