RE: The 'old testament' argument
March 21, 2013 at 5:13 pm
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2013 at 5:17 pm by Ryantology.)
Quote:Why would one look at it from the manufactures point, the manufacture did nothing wrong. You bought the TV with the knowledge it had a choice and might exercise that choice. It's the TV's fault it broke, it made a choice the manufacture would prefer the TV not make. The manufacture designed it with free choice, perfect in every way until it made the wrong choice. You want to blame the designer for designing a perfect TV even when you know the TV has the ability to corrupt itself. The manufacture was not irresponsible, as a matter of fact the Manufacture in this case supplies a redemption plan.
This is a stupid analogy. Let's make it not so stupid.
Let's say you have a manufacturer, Godco. Godco claims to be perfect. Everything Godco makes will never exhibit flaws, which is good because Godco is a complete monopoly; it claims to make everything perfectly.
Taken in by this advertising campaign, you decide to buy a TV from Godco. God is happy, and reassures you that you can trust that your TV is perfect because he made it in his own perfect image. You take it home, giddy at the prospect of watching The Walking Dead or the 700 Club, but five minutes after you plug it in, it stops working. Nothing you do can make it function.
Upset, you take your TV back to Godco and demand an explanation for why this perfect TV turned out to be critically flawed. A Godco representative named Godschild tells you that the TV is perfect, but as Godco gave it free will, it has decided not to work, so you're out of luck. Remembering that Godco never mentioned anything about free will to you during the sales pitch, you consult the user manual and find no mention of Godco designing free will in its television but a number of pages indicate that the TV, in fact, was not only never designed to have free will, but that it was designed, specifically, to operate according to the whims of the Godco CEO. The representative denies the obvious truth and refuses to honor any warranty or issue any refund. Godco soon becomes the target of class-action lawsuits and pay heavy fines for false advertising, and the CEO ends up sentenced to several billion consecutive life terms, after information is revealed during his fraud trial that he was directly responsible for the murders of countless people, and that his employees committed countless rapes, murders, enslavement and tortures in response to his personal, direct orders.
