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

[Alan Brooks]

One problem here, with what we have today make the rehab attractive and you'll have sociopaths committing crimes to enter rehab programs-- make an institution pleasant enough to be REALLY humane, you'll encourage sociopaths to commit more crimes to obtain accomodation.
And funny how when a crime is committed against someone else we're inclined to be lenient, but if a crime is committed against us then we yell for retribution, like if someone kills a loved one then all of a sudden we want the death penalty or at least for the perp to be locked up and the key thrown away permanently.


> 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?


rather than being positive, almost all politics are bad religion rather than good politics

       
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