RE: The Cosmological Argument and Free Will
September 2, 2014 at 5:12 pm
(This post was last modified: September 2, 2014 at 5:16 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 2, 2014 at 3:00 pm)Michael Wrote: Abandon the notion of personal agency and accountability and I think we'd end up in a very strange and disordered place.Oh IDK, I don;t think that we'd have to change much in our current system to be able to handle the negation of both conceptually. We might have to paint new signs on prisons.... as places we keep people -precisely because we know they cant be held accountable (rather than using them as "punishment" for what we do hold a person accountable for). I'm sure there are places where the negation would have drastic effects, I just don't think it would be all that many places. New signs on old buildings, an odd new owner here and there but mostly the same faces.
Don;t we often find that we can abstract one thing in principle and make it work under a different framework? Isn't that sort of the essence of declaring two things to be compatible, for example?
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