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Praise and Blame in World D
In World D, a world in which people recognize that they do not have
free will, it is still possible to maintain a system of praise and
blame. The implicit assumption is that praise and blame effect actions
such that a person praised for an action is more likely to repeat the
action while a person blamed for an action is less likely to commit the
same action again. Such a system, although possible, would look
different from the system which exists in the actual world because the
actual system is partially based on the notion that people do h…
