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

[Jeff Davis]

On 8/17/07, John K Clark <jonkc at att.net> wrote:
> "gts" <gts_2000 at yahoo.com>
                      <snip>
> > 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 ...

John, don't you think that if some sociopathic (but not organically
defective) "offender" was placed under your tutelage, and you were
given wide lattitude regarding what measures you could employ, that
you couldn't straighten him/her out?  Perhaps not completely, but
substantially?  Without surgical intervention.  You know, like place
the individual in a new environment, where old (bad) habits don't
work, and new habits have to be learned to gradually supplant the old?

Or, if not under your tutelage (for whatever reason, say, you're
disinclined or feel your skill set would be more rationally allocated
to other tasks) then under someone else's.

-- 
Best, Jeff Davis

               "Everything's hard till you
                     know how to do it."
                              Ray Charles