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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
The true answer here is, "We could make such assessments, but it's not going to aid society."
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I honestly have no idea how it could be done.
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The way courts have been doing it for years.
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The courts have been making determinations about individual cases. (1) Do you honestly think they've been doing it well? (2) How do you do it for entire groups of people in the aggregate?
Btw, the answer to 1 is definitely not.
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Unless you don't believe people have free will (which, oddly, Harris does not, and has written about at length, enough to be considered an expert on the subject).
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I don't know what Harris has written, but I do know there's a scientific case that we do not have free will.
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