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Do you want to empty the prisons? If not, why imprison people?
Comment by Super_Automatic at 24/08/2024 at 16:44 UTC
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The goal of prisons should be rehabilitation (which is what most justice systems claim already).
Imprisoning is the time we can control the external variables applied to ensure (attempt anyhow) to reconfigure the brain algorithms to produce different results in the future.
Comment by jk_pens at 24/08/2024 at 16:20 UTC
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Even if we don't blame people for their actions, it can still make sense to remove them from society for the greater good.
If we take determinism seriously, someone gets imprisoned because all circumstances up until the moment of imprisonment predetermined that they would be imprisoned. Not only their personal circumstances, but also the circumstances that led to:
etc.