RE: If free will was not real
July 31, 2016 at 2:10 pm
(This post was last modified: July 31, 2016 at 2:10 pm by Jehanne.)
(July 31, 2016 at 1:03 pm)RozKek Wrote: IIRC I pointed it out, that in the everyday life, sure if you want you can say it's free since no one's holding a gun to your head.
I disagree, fundamentally, with this analogy, even though I am a "mad dog" determinist, and even though I had heard scholars, such as Professor Daniel Dennett, appeal to it. If someone was holding a gun to my head, I just might tell them to "go fuck themselves." I guess that it would depend on what they were asking me to do and what mood I was in at the time.
Even though I do not hold to any positive belief in any afterlife, I very much care about my posthumous reputation.