RE: morality is subjective and people don't have free will
May 17, 2017 at 12:20 pm
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2017 at 12:22 pm by Aroura.)
(May 17, 2017 at 11:07 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(May 17, 2017 at 10:55 am)Shell B Wrote: I don't know why. Most of us don't spend hours debating free will and morality, so you've only got a small sample.
Haha, true but I've started a few threads in the past that took the direction of touching on both of those things. I guess it is still true that most here do think morality is subjective, though only a few don't believe we have free will.
You are basing an observation off a really small sample. Many people even in this very thread haven't stated their position. I actually only see 2 non-theists who have stated they believe in free-will in this thread. The rest have stated determinism or have not said either way.
There was a poll a while back, here and it only had 14 respondents total (still pretty small), but you can see that free-will and hard determinism are tied. And every theist who responded chose free-will, making determinism the more common, though certainly not universal, position in atheists who responded to that poll, at least.
(May 17, 2017 at 12:06 pm)mh.brewer Wrote:(May 17, 2017 at 11:54 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: This goes here somewhere....
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This, thanks Jor, couldn't have said it better.
Factors in your control does not mean you freely chose them. Just that you control them. Control =/= choice.
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