On Mon, 15 Aug 2022 at 22:12, John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 2:40 PM Brent Meeker <meekerbr...@gmail.com> > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAH%3D2ypU9wDiAY-970P6SEs4z0StN551%2BhjDwgMsZEhp9WZMvuA%40mail.gmail.com.
