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J'accuse! I must voice my strong objection to your statement that "nobody much cares what happens to an E. coli." This is a vicious nuclist smear of our hardworking and long-suffering bacterial and archaeal cousins. You continue with your nuclist...
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William T Goodall commented on
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Those societies that didn't have elites who liked to justify themselves ? Those elites that all the philosophers were part of? ""I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers." -- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)"...
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William T Goodall commented on
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And Clarence Darrow...
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heteromeles commented on
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I happen to agree. Even in a Christian context, it's pretty obvious from the Garden of Eden myth that God values free will more highly than he does humans disobeying him. After all, nothing stopped Good from making Adam and Eve without the will (or desire) to disobey God about eating the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. So far as I can tell, free will is the ability to choose to follow God, rather than (just) the ability to choose good over evil or even to think. Generalizing beyond the Christian context, I'd suggest that free will...
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Chatham commented on
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Well, in the Christian context "free will" runs up against "the divine plan." But "free will" is one of those concepts we come up with in our head that ends up being meaningless when we give it even a little thought. Not to say that it does or does not exist, but that the term doesn't mean much more than vague concepts some humans have....
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https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawl9cWmmzm98lSLEejyoZZgWj6zJ7_qbKMY commented on
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Hi Charlie, I thought that this piece was a rather nice metaphor on the limitations of psychological insight. I tend to subscribe to a Fortean view of the universe, as see us as property; defined in this case as belonging to a set, rather than being owned per se. Thank you. Ashley...
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