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There is a common concern that without free will there’s no accountability. Nonsense. We will go on holding people to account because we have to, in the sense that this is how we respond to acts that displease or enrage us. We respond in this way because we have to. Literally. We have no real choice but respond that way.

jakelafort wrote:
Notice how the language suggests dualism? We can’t really conceive of anything but our own agency. Where are we? WHERE, GODDAMNIT TO FUCKING HELL!

You can’t really have free will, methinks, without implying a duality between a brain which usually controls our physical ctions and a soul, spirit, disembodied consciousness which c…[Read more]

Davis wrote:
If you argue we should dispense with the childish illusion that we have free will, so you should with the illusion of culpability, responsibility, fairness etc. If you cannot, you should re-evaluate one or the other.

Well, whatever you do, you are somehow caused to do it. Human decisions are not random. There is a physical system…[Read more]

@ Enco

I know little about the particular insular Jewish community in question, but I do know that their beliefs, like those of Muslims, can vary widely from one temple’s rabbi’s teachings to the next. It’s not like Christian churches which have counsels, synods, etc., dictating doctrine to widely-dispersed communities.

Thus, neither you nor I…[Read more]

Free will is similar to “the God of the gaps.” Whereas the theist believes that the universe’s mysteries are explainable by positing their magical mystery being, the believer in free will explains by creating a gap in causality such that cause and effect are suspended and free will takes over.

If Joe robs a bank, and you don’t believe in free…[Read more]

Fan videos with English lyrics/Spanish translation for the two new TW songs that still don’t have any HQ live or “official” pro-made videos yet. First, “HYCAD” (as it’s being called, meaning Hell You Call A Dream):

And then, the one called Sick:

@ Robert

Thank you. You’re right about their music, of course. It’s fairly standard heavy metal. Their look, however, is totally Hot Topic goth, aimed at kids who feel they are outsiders.

On the so-called “family band” level, The Warning has competition. Five members of the same family with something like a 10-year age range. It’s hard to compare them with The Warning because from the opening it’s clear they have undertaken a different project. They are totally goth, which celebrates death and decadence. The Warning’s members are…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
These jerks wouldn’t be digging tunnels and jeopardizing the property, safety, and lives of people above ground if it wasn’t for religion.

You’re ignoring the child abuse angle.

@ Enco

Some different angles discussed here:

unapologetic wrote:
Yes that is how it legally works. “High crimes and mis-demeanors” We can’t leave the door eternally open for tyrants, out of misplaced ‘fairness’. And Rump IS getting more ‘Due Process’ than he deserves.

I’m not asking how it should work in a technical sense but how to avoid Civil War Redux. It’s a very strange situation to h…[Read more]

None dare call it “ethnic cleansing.”