The Only Ground for Incapacitation

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There might be all kinds of good moral reasons to oppose such a pill, there are clearly ethical concerns. There are questions about whether or not the pill changes individuals and one's deep self. But in a way, my model does say, right, that the only ground for incapacitating the individual is the future threat individual poses. So i don't think it is black and white in that case, even for the retributiveness.

The concept of free will is profoundly important to our self-understanding, our interpersonal relationships, and our moral and legal practices. If it turns out that no one is ever free and morally responsible, what would that mean for society, morality, meaning, and the law? Just Deserts introduces the concepts central to the debate about free will and moral responsibility by way of an entertaining, rigorous, and sometimes heated philosophical dialogue between two leading thinkers.