On 8/14/2022 4:19 AM, John Clark wrote:
Therefore from a legal point of view it shouldn't matter if somebody is a murderer because he had bad genes, or bad upbringing, or a random cosmic ray distroyed the crucial part of his brain that generates empathy for his fellow creatures, the important point is regardless of the cause he remains a murderer spreading misery wherever he goes and needs to be dealt with accordingly.
That's overlooking the fact that if he had known or estimated that he would be punished he might not have chosen to commit the murder. So in calculating the gains and loses from a murder what society does to punish murder. If it's a matter of bad genes or cosmic rays that's not something that can enter into informing the calculation to commit murder so there's no point in making an example of those murderers.
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