Episode 1: Brains, Robots, and Free Will (Free Will and Morality Pt. 1)
Very Bad Wizards
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Is Utilitarian Punishment Justifiable?
The view is sort of like, you know, sometimes people do bad things because they have a serious mental illness. And so the view that I think these scientists are trying to do is, look, let's just make all punishment more like I'm like putting someone in a mental institution. So it's just serving a useful purpose. It's either deterring other people from committing crimes and keeping this person from committing this similar kind of crime again. But there's a paper by Salz Milansky that argues the same thing that utilitarian punishment shouldn't be justified under this view. This is how academics proceeds by by by by cherry picking arguments from a from other people. What would we do?
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