Through mind alteration? Some people might prefer to die. I understand that you might want to keep them alive to make the choice, but can we be sure to take forced mind alteration off the table?
Perhaps ASI will allow more people to see the futility of retribution.
I don’t see how that happens unless it forcibly alters their minds. Why would people change at a deep level like that?
We have people who at least claim to believe that the Holy Spirit can rehabilitate people… and still want the death penalty, including for prison converts, for retributive reasons.
We have people who like retribution so much that they’ll accept Kant’s bizarre rationalizations for it.
We have people who literally don’t seem to see any difference between “justice” and “retribution” as concepts.
Some people just seem to really like retribution. I don’t know why; I personally think it’s stupid. But I don’t think my view has anything to do with determinism, and I doubt their view has anything to do with a lack of it.
“Through mind alteration?” Yes. I think there are already (very) early signs of mind alteration in terms of GLP1s effect on addiction, I would expect more things along those lines.
“Some people just seem to really like retribution. I don’t know why; I personally think it’s stupid. But I don’t think my view has anything to do with determinism, and I doubt their view has anything to do with a lack of it.” Hmmmm, I disagree here but am open to being convinced. Most people’s moral intuition for retribution seems to stem from the idea that a criminal chose to break the law, and so deserves punishment.A proper understanding of causation and determinism would seem to negate the idea that criminals have meaningfully chosen in any sense worthy of punishment.
Through mind alteration? Some people might prefer to die. I understand that you might want to keep them alive to make the choice, but can we be sure to take forced mind alteration off the table?
I don’t see how that happens unless it forcibly alters their minds. Why would people change at a deep level like that?
We have people who at least claim to believe that the Holy Spirit can rehabilitate people… and still want the death penalty, including for prison converts, for retributive reasons.
We have people who like retribution so much that they’ll accept Kant’s bizarre rationalizations for it.
We have people who literally don’t seem to see any difference between “justice” and “retribution” as concepts.
Some people just seem to really like retribution. I don’t know why; I personally think it’s stupid. But I don’t think my view has anything to do with determinism, and I doubt their view has anything to do with a lack of it.
“Through mind alteration?” Yes. I think there are already (very) early signs of mind alteration in terms of GLP1s effect on addiction, I would expect more things along those lines.
“Some people just seem to really like retribution. I don’t know why; I personally think it’s stupid. But I don’t think my view has anything to do with determinism, and I doubt their view has anything to do with a lack of it.” Hmmmm, I disagree here but am open to being convinced. Most people’s moral intuition for retribution seems to stem from the idea that a criminal chose to break the law, and so deserves punishment. A proper understanding of causation and determinism would seem to negate the idea that criminals have meaningfully chosen in any sense worthy of punishment.