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For those of you who believe that we have no free will, why should we have any legal system of laws?

If you believe that we have no free will... no ability to make any choices on our own... then why should we have any system of laws that we must follow? Why should someone be punished for not following a law when they had no ability to choose to follow it? They did not follow the law, but that was all that they could do... Why does it make sense to punish them for that?

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firefall · 61-69, M

If noone has free will, there's no way to stop making a legal system of laws or stop the punishments that result, however unnecessary it clearly would be.

ms20182878 · 61-69, M

@firefall Yes, it would seem that our system of laws and punishments would serve no useful purpose. It seems pretty crazy to me to claim that no one has any free will to make choices, but that's apparently what some people believe.

firefall · 61-69, M

@ms20182878 well of course if they are right, then they have no choice but to proclaim it and we have no choice but to doubt it. Not a very useful concept, to my mind :)