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by adasdasdas 1000 days ago
Of course, in America, we have determinism(you are a product of your environment) for criminals, and free will(everything you do is your responsibility) for everyone else.
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Perhaps this is cross-cultural. Cf https://twitter.com/AI_Solzhenitsyn/status/16425715137558405...

> Your punishment for having a knife when they searched you would be very different from the thief’s. For him to have a knife was mere misbehavior, tradition, he didn’t know any better. But for you to have one was ‘terrorism.’