🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi, I just thought I'd put in my 2c worth on this topic.
Firstly I am a hard and fast determanist, with the inherent belief that
free-will is an illusion.  I have however no problem equating this belief
with the atribution of praise or blame on peoples actions. Reasoning follows :

I think the crucial question is - Why do we wish to apportion blame or
praise?  The answer is surely (hopefully :-), because by praising or blaming
we hope to make people behave in the future the way we want them to.
So if someone, through no free-choice of their own blows someones head off,
then it is perfectly reasonable to punish them severly because this will 
hopefully lead to premisses something like these entering into their brain
machine

If I'm bad -> I'll get punished
If I'm punished -> I'll be unhappy.
Axiom - try to make (happy)=T - (Initialized at boot up:-)
so by MTTs they won't be bad, which is surely the only point of praise and
blame.

This is probably really stupid but I thought I'd find out what was wrong
with it anyway.

Bye

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Peter Grooby - Lincoln University - NZ
Probably bet not to email me at above address as I probably
won't get it. Thanx.