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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 26/02/2013 16:39, John Clark wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CAJPayv33RZZ=rROsPPE6D0xFQEwdTv1xJ+WFNa290rRJ0NV6rg@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 Stathis Papaioannou <span
dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:stathisp@gmail.com" target="_blank">stathisp@gmail.com</a>></span>
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<div class="h5">> There is no point in punishment if
perpetrators and potential perpetrators aren't going to
change their behaviour.</div>
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But no matter how crazy somebody is you can ALWAYS change
their behavior. Imprisoning them will change their behavior,
at the very least their prey population will become quite
different. And if a bullet is placed in their brain their
behavior will change even more.<br>
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The point of punishment is manifold. Check
outhttp://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=60 and onwards for a nice overview
from a legal perspective. Some rather interesting points about the
failure of deterrence. <br>
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Looking at the list, rehabilitation and deterrence depend on
learning. Removal/prevention is all about just preventing certain
actions. Retaliation is more about inducing certain states in other
people. Ethicists might discuss the justice aspect of retribution
endlessly, but one key aspect is that the target is a moral agent:
it is not fair to punish people who could not do otherwise or did
not have an understanding of what they did, so by virtue of them
being moral agents they also need to have some sort of learning
(otherwise they would not be moral agents in the first place). <br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Faculty of Philosophy
Oxford University </pre>
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