RE: If free will was not real
August 1, 2016 at 11:51 am
(This post was last modified: August 1, 2016 at 11:51 am by GrandizerII.)
(August 1, 2016 at 11:40 am)bennyboy Wrote:(August 1, 2016 at 11:26 am)RozKek Wrote: However, no matter how much I dislike this idea, I wouldn't agree with giving a very harsh sentence to the criminal e.g lifetime prison or the electric chair because the incident would ultimately be beyond our control. I'd instead agree with keeping him away from society and during that time reconditioning the criminal's brain to make him a good person and make him contribute to society in a positive way. I think this is important.
Really? Not if he raped your mom or killed your sister? See, for me personally, if someone did that to someone I cared about, I'd consider them an evil fuck, and want them to burn at the stake.
That being said, I respect your statement, because you've shown that your view on free will can be applied to ideas about justice-- it's not completely useless after all.
Even if they didn't have free will of any kind, I'd still be furious enough to want to hurt them. I don't ponder whether they were free to not do what they did.
That said, when I'm being rational instead, obviously the retribution idea of punishment is often always, if not always, a bad idea. Rozkek's point on punishment is one I somewhat agree with. But I just don't believe it's easy to recondition their brain to do "good" instead.