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Old 04-12-2019, 12:39 PM   #446 (permalink)
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This is all poopoo that reminds me of the matrix argument. It doesnt matter if we actually have free will. We experience the world as if we do and govern our existence based on the general human experience. Even if everyone became woke it wouldnt change anything because according to you we are literally incapable of making a choice to change our behavior. Thats quite the paradox youve created in your little woke bubble.
It's not a paradox. If everyone stopped believing in free will that would influence how we view and run society. It wouldn't be a choice, it would simply be emergent, but it would quite possibly result in a society that runs on a more accurate view of how the world works.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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