RE: Richard Dawkins' Faith In Free Will Is As Blind As A Christians To God
July 2, 2010 at 12:34 pm
EvF Wrote:In fact pretending we have it could lead to unjust behaviour because the moral judgement is not based on reality.
That's an interesting idea, but I'm kind of confused. So, let's say this guy wants to kill that loser of there. He thinks "we have freewill so it's okay if I kill that loser." I feel like I'm missing some middle parts. "We have free will so... something something.. it's okay if I kill that loser." because he could decide to or not to do it again? If we have free will no one is going to argue that we can't lock a guy up for murder, right? So, if he kills the loser he'd get punished and hopefully wouldn't decide to do so again.
But if everyone agrees that determinism, won't some people say that the murderer had no choice in the matter shouldn't be locked up? (I keep typing 'punched' instead of 'punished'.) Regardless of the reasons that it would still work to lock someone up for murder in a deterministic world wouldn't some people still say that? Of course, I don't know, I'm not those 'some people' if there are any.
