RE: Why free will probably does not exist, and why we should stop treating people -
February 8, 2017 at 4:21 pm
(February 8, 2017 at 4:19 pm)Aroura Wrote:Absolutely. Thank you for saying what I was about to say.(February 8, 2017 at 4:10 pm)Sal Wrote: Bingo!He's not arguing that it does, if you rea what he typed.
Free will =/= Moral Responsibility. And stop acting like the two are tied in any meaningful way.
However, locking up someone who caused harm and is dangerous =/= punishing someone who caused harm and is dangerous, and people need to stop conflating these 2 as if they were tied in any meaningful way. :p
I don't think anyone is arguing that we should stop keeping the public safe. What we are arguing is that prevention and rehabilitation should be focused on, instead of punishment. As Punishing a machine for doing what it is programmed to do is pointless and cruel, no different from people. It is better to try and fix the program. If the program cannot be fixed, then yeah, you need to prevent it from causing more harm, probably with incarceration, but more humane incarceration than what we currently employ.
