RE: Is Moral Responsibility Compatible With Determinism?
June 10, 2019 at 3:42 pm
(This post was last modified: June 10, 2019 at 3:42 pm by SenseMaker007.)
(June 10, 2019 at 3:38 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(June 10, 2019 at 1:58 pm)SenseMaker007 Wrote: Thinking you have more freedom than you do can't actually give you freedom but it can cause you to punish people far harsher than you ought to in a way that is very much counterproductive rather than useful. The death penalty, which you yourself mentioned, being a prime example.
In my opinion, executions have a brutalizing effect, making Society slightly more violent over the long term.
If killing people who can't defend themselves is okay then it's hard to find anything morally objectionable at all without being a hypocrite.