(October 30, 2015 at 10:55 am)alpha male Wrote: To say that god is evil for allowing suffering in humans implies that humans are persons or agents with rights to be free from suffering. That premise usually goes unstated. I'm saying that, in arguing that an omniscient creator precludes free will, even if successful you've just created another problem, i.e. humans no longer exist as independent persons with any rights. You win a battle but still lose the war.
We already don't have free will. That doesn't affect our rights at all. We've never had free will but human rights and legal rights are always important.
Rights are political and also good moral rules... free will is something that has never been nor ever could be possible in the contra-causal sense.
