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Flat Earther, and other conspiracy theories. Are they mostly atheists?
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RE: Flat Earther, and other conspiracy theories. Are they mostly atheists?
(March 4, 2021 at 10:06 am)arewethereyet Wrote:
(March 4, 2021 at 9:39 am)Jehanne Wrote: And, so, you think that individuals who have epileptic seizures are "choosing" to have their seizures?


And, so, individuals who suffer a stroke, resulting in Broca's Aphasia are all simply choosing to remain silent and babble instead?
Medical issues are your way of proving that nobody has free will?  

Also, my point was that you cannot speak for everyone else.  You seem to be pretty sure everybody agrees with you.

I certainly hope that they (you) would! Mental retardation, schizophrenia, brain tumors, etc., are not things that individuals choose, and, yet such conditions can have profound consequences with respect to one's behavior. For instance, the Kentucky legislature here very recently passed a law forbidding the death penalty for those murderers that have grave mental illness, implying that they at least accept the compatibilist view of free will. As Dr. Sam Harris points out in his book on the subject, even the compatibilist view is fraught with problems, as modern day fMRI experiments are able to predict the outcomes of your choices before you even are consciously aware of said choices. And, yet, how can an individual be said to freely choose an action that they are only consciously aware of after the fact?
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RE: Flat Earther, and other conspiracy theories. Are they mostly atheists? - by Jehanne - March 4, 2021 at 11:33 am

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