I think we actually agree on this, we just have to separate two pieces. When it comes to determining which kind of behavior we want, what we want to encourage a

I think we actually agree on this, we just have to separate two pieces. When it comes to determining which kind of behavior we want, what we want to encourage and discourage, then determinism or not is probably not relevant. I would not completely exclude the possibility that it might sneak in somewhere, but ad hoc I can not think of anything. The other piece is more the implementation and enforcement of the rules, how do we deal with people violating the rules. Here I think determinism or not has to influence the way we set things up. With determinism you can not really justify putting people into small prison cells, they should instead be allowed to live a normal live except from being prevented to come into situation in which there bad behavior would kick in again. So depending on what exactly we call the law - whether only the desired or undesired behavior or also including policies around implementation and enforcement - I could agree to both, determinism plays [almost] no role or it does.