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> law and order assumes the criminals are acting of free will, education assumes all students are equal, and societal success rests on the notion that all men a
by brucephillips 9y ago
> law and order assumes the criminals are acting of free will, education assumes all students are equal, and societal success rests on the notion that all men are equal
None of this is true. We would still imprison those who break the law, despite a deterministic universe, for quarantine, if nothing else.
- Borealid 9y agoWe punish for dissuasion. Some who would break the law in the absence of punishment will "choose" (however one wants to interpret that word in a fully deterministic world) not to do so because of the possibility and cost of punishment. Even punishments such as fines still make sense in a fully deterministic world, and in one where there is no societal desire to be "fair" or give people what they "deserve".