...insofar as such entities make punishment and reward contingent on the belief in free will. If they instead punish what they don’t want and reward what they do, independent of their belief in free will (e.g., punish people for entering in a forbidden location even if they were forced there by forces outside their control, like storm winds, or their own brains, or whatever), that works OK too.
...insofar as such entities make punishment and reward contingent on the belief in free will. If they instead punish what they don’t want and reward what they do, independent of their belief in free will (e.g., punish people for entering in a forbidden location even if they were forced there by forces outside their control, like storm winds, or their own brains, or whatever), that works OK too.
It doesn’t need to be contingent deductively or whatever as long it changes the way people fee about things for purposes of prosocial enforcement