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What’s the practical response/ discussion on the matter of free will and morality (or the lack thereof)?

I’m not well versed in philosophy since I stopped digging into it years ago, but I gave in and came here because this question just bugs me to no end:

Consider the premise of nurture over nature; concluding that no one is born evil and the only reason people do evil things is because they’re responding to their subjective version of the world. In an example, let’s say a man kills his neighbor over a romantic dispute. As in a lot of cases like this, let’s say that the man never received mental health care for his lack of emotional regulation that he inherited from his abusive father, and that was a major factor leading him to lash out. Having a bad past doesn’t legally make you innocent of murder, but we all could have easily been unlucky and been put in his position, and since we’re all humans with human brains, we’d each have killed the person. 

I don’t see any reason to *punish* him. Lock him up to keep society safe, sure, but don’t emotionally abuse him for being evil when the only difference between him and I is chance of birth. And yet everyone seems keen on believing that people who commit crimes deserve punishment. 

I’m sure there’s been prominent philosophers who agreed with this in some capacity, but I don’t see it at all in culture or legislation and I wonder if it’s just because people don’t know how to handle that premise in real life? I certainly don’t. Have their been any philosophers who presented popular practical ethics for this type of thinking?
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You should read Strawson's "Freedom and Resentment." It's a very popular essay that deals directly with this problem. He concludes that it's impossible to take a purely objective perspective towards life that treats everything as determined. You can look at this or that person or situation in an objective way, but you can't live your life like that, and trying to do so is undesirable.