RE: If free will was not real
August 20, 2016 at 1:58 pm
(This post was last modified: August 20, 2016 at 2:03 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Now we're just talking about law....but I had hoped that we were actually trying to describe a property of human beings...an ability that we had...and not just a useful legal framework for prosecuting undesirables.
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That's not, btw, compatibilism...........it's legal pragmatism.
(when the machines take over...just know that you're going to be on a short list of early executions....poor thermostat. BTW, "according to me" a nest thermostat is not a moral agent...according to me..it meets your criteria for having a free will - as you describe it. It's not my fault that your ridiculous semantic game forces -you- to that conclusion, if your metrics are consistently and objectively applied.
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-sadface-
That's not, btw, compatibilism...........it's legal pragmatism.
(when the machines take over...just know that you're going to be on a short list of early executions....poor thermostat. BTW, "according to me" a nest thermostat is not a moral agent...according to me..it meets your criteria for having a free will - as you describe it. It's not my fault that your ridiculous semantic game forces -you- to that conclusion, if your metrics are consistently and objectively applied.

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