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If certain negative outcomes can be prevented or reduced, then whether or not someone chose to jaywalk or not made no difference. Society does not get to wash
by kiba 5y ago
If certain negative outcomes can be prevented or reduced, then whether or not someone chose to jaywalk or not made no difference.
Society does not get to wash their hands off their problems because of the excuse of "free will", because human brains are like any other systems. They can be studied, fixed, nfluenced or modified. It may be difficult, even seemly insurmountable given our limited mastery, but in theory it can be done.
Also, jaywalking is an example you don't want to use. Jaywalking is dangerous because engineers designed roads to be dangerous and unfriendly to pedestrians and fast and easy for cars. Again, traffic are just systems like any other, much like human brains that interact with it.
So we have a choice. We can use "free will" as an excuse to not fix or do anything at all, or try to steer society toward a beneficial outcome for all of us.