The Issue of Punishment

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The issue about punishment is not the cantian retributive desire to yield even the eternal store in heaven. It's to maintain respect for the law, and you can't do that unless it's public. Laws will not be respected if they are to draconian or if there are no punishments at all. The last thingi we want to encourage is the medicalization of our system of punishment. Yeas ond in the soviet union, what i i don't do os esget another e ause it was so leme sen i got, i got a couple of things i have to saysay, quarantine. And i say, prison ye. Ogan, let's the

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.