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Old 11-11-2007, 07:13 PM
Sephus Sephus is offline
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"Any thoughts on the implications of free will not existing? "

It makes it awfully hard to blame people for things they had no choice in doing.

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True and I think that's a good thing. Less hate = good. Of course we will still want to take measures to prevent them from harming us so punishment is still perfectly viable as a deterrent.

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Please elaborate.

In the above example, we have no choice regarding what measures we take....

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we always have a choice, it's just not free.
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