There's a difference between physical responsibility as in cause and effect and moral responsibility. Assuming we have no free will then moral responsibility is

There's a difference between physical responsibility as in cause and effect and moral responsibility. Assuming we have no free will then moral responsibility is fiction. However it is useful fiction. That is punishment is therefore amoral but still required as a feedback mechanism to correct physical processes. If we can separate these 2 things, then one can accept punishment as required, without judgement of morality.