Originally Posted by
MadMojoMonkey
I ultimately agree that is what the evidence shows at this time.
However, it's not ever going to matter culturally. People "feel" agency. Full stop, as you say.
Without agency, the whole criminal justice system needs rebuilding. No one chose to be a murderer, nor could they have chosen not to... it's not anyone's fault that they do what they do... they're just a collection of chemical reactions running its inevitable course.
Fine, then society still needs to remove dangerous elements... but based on what arguments and to what end? The notion of "rehabilitation" is no longer on the table, so what, then?
How do we account for the fact that just because someone was a danger to society once or twice or ten times that they will do so again? Is it just a statistics game? Fine... all I'm saying is that all the current arguments that support the entire structure of crime and punishment are off the table if personal agency is a total myth.
And people wont buy it, so to speak.
So it's effectively a moot point to embrace it when talking about cultural structures.