Should Criminals be Punished?
In my last blog, I talked about how we don't really have a free will. I would recommend you to check that blog before reading this one. If Free Will doesn't exist then doesn't that mean that every criminal is himself a victim of factors that he doesn't have any control over? Wouldn't that mean that no criminal can be held morally accountable for his/her crimes and hence does not deserve to be punished? I believe that no person should be held morally accountable for his/her crimes but at the same time, I also believe that although a criminal is himself a victim of circumstances (meaning that his/her decision of committing crime was influenced by every external and internal influence he/she got in his lifetime which are not under his/her control) he/she should still be punished (legally). Are criminals bad? Let's imagine a case about a guy accused of raping and murdering 10 women and 2 children in a week. How do you feel about him? Are you angry at him? Do you wa...