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Spiker439 · 10-29-2005, 07:47 PM

I really didn't want to talk about God and free will in this thread - there's another one going for that. Either way, you make an interesting point about determinism and jails, etc. I suppose that jails could be construed as causing less crime, and so they would be deterrents, but it seems counterintuitive to me. Are you saying that if I kill someone, I go to jail so that other people will thereby be deterred from killing? No, I think I'm going to jail because I killed someone. What about the Black and Jones case, any thoughts?

10-29-2005, 07:47 PM	#3 (permalink)
Spiker439 Upright	I really didn't want to talk about God and free will in this thread - there's another one going for that. Either way, you make an interesting point about determinism and jails, etc. I suppose that jails could be construed as causing less crime, and so they would be deterrents, but it seems counterintuitive to me. Are you saying that if I kill someone, I go to jail so that other people will thereby be deterred from killing? No, I think I'm going to jail because I killed someone. What about the Black and Jones case, any thoughts? Last edited by Spiker439; 10-29-2005 at 07:52 PM..