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Free Will -- the "materialist string" pulls both ways.

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Free Will -- the "materialist string" pulls both ways.
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RE: Free Will -- the "materialist string" pulls both ways.
April 3, 2016 at 6:31 pm
(April 3, 2016 at 3:37 pm)FebruaryOfReason Wrote: Can I use this thread at my trial?

No.

Look, once again, the "materialist string" pulls both ways.  Take a sex offender; if Society truly believed that person (usually, a man) had "free will", then what's the rationale behind civil confinement, that is, keeping an individual locked-up after the completion of his sentence?
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RE: Free Will -- the "materialist string" pulls both ways. - by deleteduser12345 - April 3, 2016 at 8:37 am
RE: Free Will -- the "materialist string" pulls both ways. - by deleteduser12345 - April 3, 2016 at 10:05 am
RE: Free Will -- the "materialist string" pulls both ways. - by deleteduser12345 - April 3, 2016 at 10:39 am
RE: Free Will -- the "materialist string" pulls both ways. - by deleteduser12345 - April 3, 2016 at 1:16 pm
RE: Free Will -- the "materialist string" pulls both ways. - by Jehanne - April 3, 2016 at 6:31 pm

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