(August 3, 2024 at 9:11 am)brewer Wrote:(August 3, 2024 at 9:02 am)Disagreeable Wrote: You sound compatabilist.
Maybe, but I don't really care. Discussing free will typically ends up being a circular, go nowhere, non-practical discussion.
Let me ask you, in the end does it really matter?
I think so. I think punishing people because they deserve it would go away in a society that doesn't hold to free will. Instead, we'd only punish people when it benefited everybody else as a whole.
Schopenhauer Wrote:The intellect has become free, and in this state it does not even know or understand any other interest than that of truth.
Epicurus Wrote:The greatest reward of righteousness is peace of mind.
Epicurus Wrote:Don't fear god,
Don't worry about death;
What is good is easy to get,
What is terrible is easy to endure