[ExI] free-will, determinism, crime and punishment.

[John K Clark]

"gts" <gts_2000 at yahoo.com>

>  I define free-will, roughly, as the capacity to act
> freely according to one's will

So one has free will if one's will is free. I said it before I'll say it
again, free will is an idea so bad it's not even wrong.

> the goal of a correctional facility should
> be  simply to correct the nature of the criminal

But we have no idea how to do that and even if we did the resulting mind
surgery would be so radical that the original individual would be mostly
dead anyway, the new fellow is a very nice man but has little to do with the
criminal. Seems to me a bullet to the brain would be more elegant.

> Retribution ought not figure into the equation.

It ought not to but it does, no use pretending that reptilian part of our
brain doesn't exist.

 John K Clark