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GORDON wrote:http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc ... ll/480750/

1. Write article about how free will is an illusion but scientists and ethicists are undecided on whether to publicize it.
2. Publicize it.

Fuckshit journalists.

Cakedaddy had this same theory back in the 90s.

Prove him wrong by raising your hand out of nowhere and he'd say that was predetermined and there's nothing you can do to prove otherwise because it's all predetermined.

It was a frustrating argument.

Cakedaddy can't help but be frustrating. That's predetermined, too.

But then so is your frustration, I guess, so you can't not be frustrated.

But I still believe in my own Free Will. Because it's been predetermined that I shall do so. So there.

It seems that when people stop believing they are free agents, they stop seeing themselves as blameworthy for their actions.

Did someone pay for this bullshit study?

In every regard, it seems, when we embrace determinism, we indulge our dark side.

News at 11: people are dicks.

Malcolm wrote:

It seems that when people stop believing they are free agents, they stop seeing themselves as blameworthy for their actions.

It's white peoples'/muslims'/immigrants'/Bush's fault.

Don't forget global warming.

Leisher wrote:Don't forget global warming.

Which is out of human control, so why worry that's it's going to kill us all?

Alhazad wrote:

Leisher wrote:Don't forget global warming.

Which is out of human control, so why worry that's it's going to kill us all?

No, you misunderstood. I was adding it to Gordon's list:

It's white peoples'/muslims'/immigrants'/Bush's fault.