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168. Daniel Dennett & Gregg Caruso — Just Deserts: Debating Free Will (moderated by Michael Shermer)

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The Punishment Should Fit the Crime

Cesere beccares i enlightenment, improvement, that the punishment should fit the crime. That was a huge step in a western jurisprudence before that. I retain a different proportionality principle which is that the individual sanctions,. or a a limiting, a limiting o restrictions, should be  in accordance with the future threat the individual opposes. If you muddy them up, and i you play around with them internal to the practices, then abuses open up and all kinds of things occur. And i think you want to bring desert in, and that's why you think it's unique.

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