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For questions about ethics, a branch of philosophy dealing with morality, justice, virtue, vice, good and evil.

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Does a consistent theory of retributive punishment require belief in freewill? [duplicate]

Is it "possible" to accept a retributive theory of punishment, while simultaneously accepting a deterministic view of human behavior? Is belief in freewill a necessary condition for a belief that retr …
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Would it be ethical to own a sentient machine?

Amazingly, we already live in an age populated with sentient machines of human-level artificial intelligence. They're called human beings. There is no reason that the ethical principles we apply to co …
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