RE: The Watchmaker: my fav argument
March 8, 2021 at 9:53 am
(This post was last modified: March 8, 2021 at 9:57 am by John 6IX Breezy.)
(March 8, 2021 at 9:41 am)Angrboda Wrote: It only follows if creating imperfect beings is not the right thing to do. It also ignores that there may be multiple interests at stake which conflict. Flawed but free beings may be preferable to perfect but not free ones.
One should also not confuse limited with imperfect. We are not brains in vats, we are embodied, we experience a slice of the perceivable world, we inhabit a certain ecological niche. Our vision is not imperfect by lacking the acuity of eagles—we are not eagles. But I agree that yes, giving us autonomy was intentional and by design.
