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»We all have choices and free will [...]« is debatable. There are probably better times to do this but it is definitely debatable.


Isn't free will he flip side to determinism? I am able to generate truly random numbers which are completely non-deterministic by any number of methods (deck of cards, pick a number 0|1 over and over, muscle twitches, etc). Doesn't that imply that I have, at some basic level, free will?


It could just as easily imply that your decisions are essentially random noise, which we seek to rationalize afterwards.


Why does murdering children imply you should receive no sympathy? Is sympathy only an emotion for the morally clean?




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