(July 27, 2016 at 10:16 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(July 27, 2016 at 10:14 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: So you're a... compatibilist?
In my mind, the only difference between compatibilists and determinists is the former dishonestly choose to circulate an outdated and wrong idea, for whatever obstinate reasons drive them, infusing it with no additional meaning whatsoever that could possibly justify such an undertaking, even a little bit.
I am a determinist, but, I respect compatibilists and their views and feel that I have no choice in the matter!
How can there be a but here? What warrants a but?
If you're a determinist, why cater to compatibilists? I don't get you.
I assumed you were a compatibilist because you specifically said you didn't believe absolute free will didn't exist, which pretty much sums up compatibilist's views.
You can't "respect" someone's views if you don't agree with them. Or, are you talking about the sort of respect where you don't go screaming in the streets, cut people's heads off and terrorize the populace because of a difference of opinion?
How, exactly, do you "respect" someone's views, I wonder, while totally disagreeing with those views at the same time. You can respect the person, but there's no respecting the views, especially not if you don't agree with them.