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>Is there any way for your statement (which has many bold assertions) to lead anywhere but "We're all just victims of our genes"? Maybe that we are influenced
by alanwatts 10y ago
>Is there any way for your statement (which has many bold assertions) to lead anywhere but "We're all just victims of our genes"?
Maybe that we are influenced far more by uncontrollable environmental factors than by our "freely* willed" decisions.
>Free will: the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate;
When you are hungry, you need to eat. But if you don't have any money and take an apple from the market you will be punished. So technically in this situation, the person acted out of necessity and therefore did not act out of free will.
- mcguire 10y agoThe "crime by necessity" argument is well known and well accepted in moral philosophy (even if not always in jurisprudence). The real question is unnecessary crimes: You choose to steal cars and ride around. Can we convince you not to do that (and other, worse, things), or are you simply broken?