(August 20, 2016 at 3:08 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote:(August 20, 2016 at 3:03 pm)RozKek Wrote: If you judge a criminal in court based on your definition of free will, you've judged him wrongfully.
Criminals in court are already judged based on the compatabilist sense of free will. The compatabilist sense is the legal sense.
And I don't think it's correct if I'm trying to be as rational as possible. I dislike the idea too, but e.g if a murderer is being sentenced I don't think it's correct to give them a lifetime prison, or the electric chair etc. I don't think it's correct to ultimately blame him/her for it. I think it's correct to recondition them/their brain in order to turn them into a good person that contributes to society in a positive way. And that's not what's happening at the moment.