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#784 Paul Russell: Free Will and Moral Responsibility

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The Complexity of Punishment and Retribution

Punishment intuitively on more robust or demanding notion connects with this idea of dessert and dessert means we're right back into this thing this set of issues we're talking about for. them self-controllers of the kind we think is necessary for them to have free will and to really deserve retributive practices like punishment so does my dog deserve to be punished? And then there's the further question that because we blame that because bladers appropriate that suggests that they actually deserve or merit harsh treatment of some sort all of these are every one of these steps is problematic and I might be contested but it doesn't follow from that that they deserve or that retribution harsh treatment is simply on that basis

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