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<blockquote data-quote="Bradskii" data-source="post: 77664545" data-attributes="member: 412388"><p>I don't either. </p><p></p><p>I can live with the idea that there is no free will. I do consider it now and then if I'm in a bad mood because someone has done something that I don't appreciate. It can be psychologically beneficial in thinking that there was a fixed sequence of events that happened that caused the person to act as they did. So I can view it more as 'an act of God' rather than waste valuable emotional credit in frustration and blame.</p><p></p><p>But...I most <em>definitely </em>do not like the idea that everything <em>is </em>pre-determined. And I have spent quite a lot of time looking for an escape clause for this. It's why it has taken me very many years to make a decision on free will. It suggests a form of fatalism. Well, it did suggest it. Now...I accept it.</p><p></p><p>Does that mean I can roll my eyes when I'm up before the judge for sentencing and claim that hey, it was all predetermined and that I can't be blamed? Well, yes and no. Yes, it was all predetermined but no, you're still going to be blamed. You are responsible. Tough luck. But your culpability, in the legal sense - the degree of responsibility to which we will hold you, will be taken into account.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bradskii, post: 77664545, member: 412388"] I don't either. I can live with the idea that there is no free will. I do consider it now and then if I'm in a bad mood because someone has done something that I don't appreciate. It can be psychologically beneficial in thinking that there was a fixed sequence of events that happened that caused the person to act as they did. So I can view it more as 'an act of God' rather than waste valuable emotional credit in frustration and blame. But...I most [I]definitely [/I]do not like the idea that everything [I]is [/I]pre-determined. And I have spent quite a lot of time looking for an escape clause for this. It's why it has taken me very many years to make a decision on free will. It suggests a form of fatalism. Well, it did suggest it. Now...I accept it. Does that mean I can roll my eyes when I'm up before the judge for sentencing and claim that hey, it was all predetermined and that I can't be blamed? Well, yes and no. Yes, it was all predetermined but no, you're still going to be blamed. You are responsible. Tough luck. But your culpability, in the legal sense - the degree of responsibility to which we will hold you, will be taken into account. [/QUOTE]
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