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America prisons exhibit the cruelty outcome from acts of piety and assuming people have free will. Punishment doesn't make sense when everything is cause & effe
by sysbin 7y ago
America prisons exhibit the cruelty outcome from acts of piety and assuming people have free will. Punishment doesn't make sense when everything is cause & effect.
Edit: For the people saying punishment makes sense. I would say rehabilitation is what really makes sense and treating every crime similar to an illness that doctors provide treatment to cure. You can try to define your free will definition to please you but at the end of the day nobody is free if they're destined to be locked up in a jail cell by fate.
- toasterlovin 7y agoFree will may not exist, but punishment changes the risk/reward tradeoff that gets evaluated by the mind.
- dllthomas 7y ago> Punishment doesn't make sense when everything is cause & effect. Sure it does. Credible threat of punishment can change behavior. This is demonstrated all the time in the small. There's a lot of reason to be skeptical that that translates well to prison, but that's independent of whether "everything is cause & effect".
- ggm 7y agoI thought the studies tended to say negative reinforcement was the least effective method. Not that "it doesn't work" but that it both costs more and works worse, than any other choice.
- dabbledash 7y agoOn the contrary, punishment only makes sense when everything is cause and effect. Defining “free will” actions to mean “actions that have no causes” isn’t very useful.