Moral Responsibility Practices Can Change Over Time

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i agree with dan a lot about the the am social construction of our moral responsibility practices and how they evolved over time. But i also want to reiterate that punishment is not the issue. Free will sceptic can justify punishing the husband if there were deterrent base theorists. I don't personally want to preserve punishment, but a freewill sceptic could. And you can preserve everything you said and still be aFreewill sceptic.

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.