http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2574773/We-need-abolish-IRS-Conservative-firebrand-Ted-Cruz-launches-political-convention-direct-assault-U-S-tax-authority.html
Abolishing the IRS in not the same as abolishing the income tax.
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
http://ludditecontro.blogspot.com/2014/02/irony.html#comment-form
But anti-natalism is built upon do no harm, not give pleasure, alleviate, etc,
It is intended to show disgust with the CEO's disregard for the suffering of others. Anti-natalists tend to take issue with such displays of indifference.
They do? What about the right to be indifferent as long as you're not aggressing and harming people directly. ---disagreements with economic systems, how best to help the poor.
But anti-natalism is built upon do no harm, not give pleasure, alleviate, etc,
It is intended to show disgust with the CEO's disregard for the suffering of others. Anti-natalists tend to take issue with such displays of indifference.
They do? What about the right to be indifferent as long as you're not aggressing and harming people directly. ---disagreements with economic systems, how best to help the poor.
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Monday, February 17, 2014
Typhoid mary and free will
typhoid Mary, notorious spreader of disease, didn't believe she was contagious, threat to others, insisted on continuing to work food service.
Free will at Ilion: https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=479830240587990195&postID=4085634532816680912
Ilion, there is no question that it is nearly impossible to not feel that you have free will. So, in our everyday lives, no one is a full-fledged determinist. I have never stated anything contrary to that. But feeling that one has free will is not the same thing as actually having it (in something more than the ordinary meaning of making choices and having the mental capacity to understand the consequences of those "choices").
What we can do on an intellectual level is reason from the law of causality that applies to everything else and then apply that law to ourselves.
We can "deduce" determinism, but can we notice it through our experiences? Only in a very limited way, if at all. But that's not a very strong argument for free will.
planks length said...
Nick J said...
Also as to whether criminals have a defense in their lack of free will, I've tried to argue in the past that this suggests that each person is a passive observer of his own actions which I don't think is the case, even without free will. I think we're still responsible for our actions, our actions defining in a sense who we are. But these are just ideas of mine.
http://www.ted.com/conversations/1107/there_is_no_such_thing_as_free.html
Free will at Ilion: https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=479830240587990195&postID=4085634532816680912
Ilion, there is no question that it is nearly impossible to not feel that you have free will. So, in our everyday lives, no one is a full-fledged determinist. I have never stated anything contrary to that. But feeling that one has free will is not the same thing as actually having it (in something more than the ordinary meaning of making choices and having the mental capacity to understand the consequences of those "choices").
What we can do on an intellectual level is reason from the law of causality that applies to everything else and then apply that law to ourselves.
We can "deduce" determinism, but can we notice it through our experiences? Only in a very limited way, if at all. But that's not a very strong argument for free will.
In a determinist universe, there ought to be no prisons... in fact, no law. After all, no one would be responsible for his actions. How could we possibly call anyone guilty of a wrongdoing, if there is only "doing"?
Strange reasoning, planks length. Lack of libertarian free will doesn't mean that person (rapist, murderer, armed robber) didn't commit the act. They can still be held as dangerous to society, just as those who commit terrible things but are found "not guilty by reason of insanity" are locked up if they remain insane and their insanity makes them a threat to others.
http://www.ted.com/conversations/1107/there_is_no_such_thing_as_free.html
Copyright Nazis Strike Again!
Original SE post updated: http://www.skepticaleye.com/2010/05/music-monday-blackout.html
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Friday, April 13, 2012
Zimmerman!
Zim, how you have endured the attack of the hive!
Zim, we who know Truth vs. lies
know you are NOT GUILTY!
Zim, they tried to turn your brown skin white!
But justice and truth saw the light!
The black racists have been exposed!
They are all liars, as everyone knows!
You had no choice but to save your life!
And protect your head as the young thug
used it to bang the ground beanth you
Thank God you had a gun!
No, it wasn't fun!
But now the lying "liberal" scum call you a bum!
But to the rest of us,
Yes, you are a HERO!!!!
May you run...
FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Zim, we who know Truth vs. lies
know you are NOT GUILTY!
Zim, they tried to turn your brown skin white!
But justice and truth saw the light!
The black racists have been exposed!
They are all liars, as everyone knows!
You had no choice but to save your life!
And protect your head as the young thug
used it to bang the ground beanth you
Thank God you had a gun!
No, it wasn't fun!
But now the lying "liberal" scum call you a bum!
But to the rest of us,
Yes, you are a HERO!!!!
May you run...
FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!
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