• jkrtn@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    If free will isn’t a thing then why are you urging us to empathize? There’s nothing you can say or do that will influence my behavior in the slightest. Sorry, I don’t have a choice: I hope he dies in prison miserable and alone.

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      9 months ago

      If marbles don’t have free will, why does putting them into a marble maze lead to them rolling? That you cannot stand apart from your mind and reason with some perfect algorithm that doesn’t mean that you cannot be influenced. I’m a part of your environment.

      Also, I’m not necessarily trying to shape your perspective; I’m sharing mine. I’m not saying you’re wrong to have that viewpoint, I just prefer the person I am when I’m not generating that as much as when I’m generating that him existing as the person he is, is a tragedy.