(October 3, 2013 at 5:57 am)genkaus Wrote: That deterministic event that leads to the resultant crime is called "making a choice".Okay. At least you're consistent.
I accept moral ideas, including those of punishment, exactly because I don't accept the deterministic definition of free will, and of self, that you do. I take choices to be real things, not labels for reducing a complex environment down to a single behavioral impulse.
I don't think your position makes sense. To accept a determinist view, in which a person ultimately has a choice of 1 option in every scenario, means that morality has no meaning.
I would hope that your view on crime fighting is a statistical one, a la Minority Report-- because no other stance makes sense GIVEN determinism.