On Mon, 15 Aug 2022 at 22:12, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 2:40 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> > wrote: > > * > 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.* >> > > But as I said, before you start worrying about deterrence you should make > sure that the man you have just convicted of murder does not murder again. > Take for example the case of Kenneth McDuff, he was convicted of the rape > torture and murder of 3 children in 1966 and sentenced to death, but it was > later commuted to life in prison. Despite the life sentence he was released > from prison in 1989 due to overcrowding. As a free man over the next 3 > years McDuff tortured at least 5 more children to death before he was > caught. In 1998 he was finally executed, he never killed anybody after that > and I think we can be pretty sure he never will. > Removing a hazard, if that’s how you want to look at the legal system, does not require any consideration of the criteria for free will, but deterring people from breaking legal or moral rules does. > -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAH%3D2ypU9wDiAY-970P6SEs4z0StN551%2BhjDwgMsZEhp9WZMvuA%40mail.gmail.com.
