RE: Is belief really a choice?
April 4, 2013 at 10:34 am
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2013 at 10:36 am by Mystic.)
(April 4, 2013 at 10:30 am)Rhythm Wrote: Why wouldn't I?
To condemn some person, requires you believe they are blameworthy.
They can only be blameworthy, if they could avoid what is blameworthy.
They can only avoid what is blameworthy, if they had some choice in the matter (ie. some free-will in deciding the matter).
(April 4, 2013 at 10:30 am)Rhythm Wrote: Perhaps they did not choose their beliefs (that informed their actions) and I did not choose to believe that they had culpability for them (which informs my blame).
Perhaps not, but if you believed they had no choice, you could not condemn them.
Well, not really, you can believe in a contradicting thing, you would believe they have a choice, at the same time don't....
But to condemn them, you do it from the belief they do have the choice.
