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Some people deny free will but still claim that punishment is necessary to [[Deterrence|deter]] harmful behaviour and protect the community, predicated on the idea that human beings are [[Motivation|motivated]] by a [[health]]y [[animal]] [[instinct]] to avoid pain and danger of injury or death, and are [[rational]] enough to understand the [[Consequentialism|consequential]] difference between [[right and wrong]] behavior and the [[corollary]] concepts of [[Good and evil|good and evil]]. Such people argue that punishment should be the minimum necessary to deter harmful behavior<ref>See arguments in [[Corporal punishment]]. Compare [[Insanity defense]].</ref>. They are opposed by those who [[Specious reasoning|speciously]] promote the [[Falsehood|false]] [[Libertarianism|libertarian]] philosophies of [[anarchism]] and [[antinomianism]] under the guise of true [[liberty]] and [[freedom]] of the will.

Some people deny free will but still claim that punishment is necessary to [[Deterrence|deter]] harmful behaviour and protect the community, predicated on the idea that human beings are [[Motivation|motivated]] by a [[health]]y [[animal]] [[instinct]] to avoid pain and danger of injury or death, and are [[rational]] enough to understand the [[Consequentialism|consequential]] difference between [[right and wrong]] behavior and the [[corollary]] concepts of [[Good and evil|good and evil]]. Such people argue that punishment should be the minimum necessary to deter harmful behavior<ref>See arguments in [[Corporal punishment]]. Compare [[Insanity defense]].</ref>. They are opposed by those who [[Specious reasoning|speciously]] promote the [[Falsehood|false]] [[Libertarianism|libertarian]] philosophies of [[anarchism]] and [[antinomianism]] under the guise of true [[liberty]] and [[freedom]] of the will.

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