RE: No soul? No free will and no responsibility then, yet the latter's essential...
August 20, 2020 at 1:29 pm
(This post was last modified: August 20, 2020 at 1:38 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Nah, soul™ might have a nature as well, and that nature might be constrained in the relevant manner. Christians assert as much with regularity.
When people say "they did it of their own free will" they're attempting to load the act down with conceptual baggage for-purpose.They did a good thing of their free will™ - which is better..or a bad thing of their free will, which is worse. It's not a statement of fact with respect to the action in question - but with respect to alleged underlying intent. We are held responsible for our decisions regardless of whether we freely will any action - and freely willed action is not a requirement of holding us responsible for our decisions.
We make the decisions regardless of whether we freely will anything, and we hope to dissuade poor decision-making...especially by non freely willed means. If the candy machine gave us a snickers when we ordered a twix, we'd be just as pissed.
When people say "they did it of their own free will" they're attempting to load the act down with conceptual baggage for-purpose.They did a good thing of their free will™ - which is better..or a bad thing of their free will, which is worse. It's not a statement of fact with respect to the action in question - but with respect to alleged underlying intent. We are held responsible for our decisions regardless of whether we freely will any action - and freely willed action is not a requirement of holding us responsible for our decisions.
We make the decisions regardless of whether we freely will anything, and we hope to dissuade poor decision-making...especially by non freely willed means. If the candy machine gave us a snickers when we ordered a twix, we'd be just as pissed.
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