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Quarantine Model: Constrain, Don't Punish

Rejecting free will requires separating mitigating harm from retribution: you must still protect society from dangerous people, but the model is a car with failed brakes—you constrain it in a garage and research how to fix the brakes, but you don't take a sledgehammer to it for having a 'rotten soul'; punishment becomes at most an occasional instrumental tool to be deeply distrusted.

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Speaker

Robert Sapolsky

Evidence Quote

you got to protect society from dangerous people even if blaming them is not only intellectually and also ethically impossible... you constrain them you don't jail you constrain them

Source

360 - We Really Don T Have Free WillMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:19:39 AM

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