RE: The Newly Departed thread: announcements (departures)
April 22, 2018 at 3:48 pm
(This post was last modified: April 22, 2018 at 3:51 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(April 22, 2018 at 3:37 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Hammy, I for one am not deceived that anyone honestly doesn't believe in free-will. It's impossible.
Free will is indeed impossible.
(April 22, 2018 at 3:40 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Free will simply means you choose your actions and are therefore morally responsible for them.
Well, there's two different versions of free-will.
One is the kind that everyone believes in, including me.
Another is the kind that almost everyone believes in. The magical kind.
The ability to do otherwise in exactly the same situation, is impossible.
My point is that ultimately your choices are caused.
But I really didn't want this thread to turn into a free-will debate. But feel free to make another free-will thread if you wish. There's been fucking tons of them over the years, and I've argued my point time and time again.
Here's my favorite version of the argument against incompatabilist free-will: