RE: Being good without god
February 22, 2013 at 6:09 pm
(This post was last modified: February 22, 2013 at 6:11 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
IIRC Genk doesn't require our "free will" or "choices" to be "free" of things like causality or determinism, in fact I recall him mentioning that it would be ridiculous to postulate that they were. It just diversionary horseshit on the part of Chad to go that route, and it wouldn't matter in any case, as it amounts to an argument from consequence. Suppose our existence was just a chain of deterministic this and thats? So what? To hell with consequence, if that's what it is that's what it is, this is no criticism at all, it's just a dodge. You don't like the consequence, oh cry me a river......
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