RE: A thing about religious (and other) people and the illusion of free will
November 19, 2023 at 12:06 pm
(This post was last modified: November 19, 2023 at 12:07 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Well, in the hypothetical, it's not like people can choose whether or not to be satisfied or dissatisfied - and either state is not directly related to the competence or performance of the other party. The future fatalist government might be knocking it out of the park but that won't add or subtract to their support in and of itself. Meanwhile, people who currently believe in free will are already dissatisfied with the government about the things that are consequential to their lives in which they are demonstrably not free -or- in which they strongly believe (in error) they are not free.
IDK if I'd say our country is based on free will. I don't think that our domestic or foreign policies would support that idea...though I guess it is something we push internally.
IDK if I'd say our country is based on free will. I don't think that our domestic or foreign policies would support that idea...though I guess it is something we push internally.
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