(December 21, 2014 at 4:20 am)Alex K Wrote:Free will involves the ability to make a choice. A true hero, say running into a fire to save a child, would be "praiseworthy". I am sure there are other examples, but this should do for now.(December 20, 2014 at 8:18 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: How can an action be praiseworthy if free-will was not involved?How can an action be praise-worthy if free will was involved?
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy