RE: Theists: how do you account for psychopaths?
May 26, 2018 at 9:55 am
(This post was last modified: May 26, 2018 at 9:57 am by Edwardo Piet.)
Well one kind of free will is completely incoherent.
The other kind is trivially true but as silly as pantheism. Like I have said, when a compatabilist says "You're a compatabilist in all but name!" it's like a pantheist saying to an atheist "You're a pantheist in all but name!". It just shows how completely devoid of content such an -ism actually is.
Physical freedom sure as hell exists. But it would certainly be moral for God to limit a rapist or murderer's physical freedom as well, for the same reason that the police do. But surely God would do a much better job as well. He could prevent the rapist or murderer raping and murdering in the first place. If God thinks limiting the freedom of a rapist or murderer is worse than the rape or murder itself then he sure as hell is indeed the moral monster that I say he must be if he is all powerful and all knowing.
And seen as theists love to use the shitty parent analogy so much: God is like a parent who lets their children play in the road and starts fires, and doesn't prevent their children from doing those things because they don't want to impede on their child's 'free will'.
Well, God is like that, only even worse. As the greater the responsibility the greater the irresponsibility when that responsibility isn't used.
The other kind is trivially true but as silly as pantheism. Like I have said, when a compatabilist says "You're a compatabilist in all but name!" it's like a pantheist saying to an atheist "You're a pantheist in all but name!". It just shows how completely devoid of content such an -ism actually is.
Physical freedom sure as hell exists. But it would certainly be moral for God to limit a rapist or murderer's physical freedom as well, for the same reason that the police do. But surely God would do a much better job as well. He could prevent the rapist or murderer raping and murdering in the first place. If God thinks limiting the freedom of a rapist or murderer is worse than the rape or murder itself then he sure as hell is indeed the moral monster that I say he must be if he is all powerful and all knowing.
And seen as theists love to use the shitty parent analogy so much: God is like a parent who lets their children play in the road and starts fires, and doesn't prevent their children from doing those things because they don't want to impede on their child's 'free will'.
Well, God is like that, only even worse. As the greater the responsibility the greater the irresponsibility when that responsibility isn't used.
