Well, I'm in no hurry
You don't have to run away this time
I know that you're timid
but it's gonna be all right this time

Are we really deserving of anything?

If the world has to either be deterministic or not, then essentially everything that happens is a construct of what that cannot be controlled by us. It seems so preposterous at first, but following the logical flow of the argument, it really seems to be a water-tight case.

And the truth is, we can accept responsibility for actions but not feel morally responsible for its consequences.

As such, laws are put in place to encourage and deter good and bad practices respectively since justice has no conscience; it is either to punish or not. But to live in such a world, one then gets desensitizes oneself from emotion, we no longer find the desire to blame or praise because there is no need to, no one deserves it.

Are we then no different from a machine?

Guess not, i'm not cut out to be an emotionless bot.

its who you are with, not where you go or what you do.