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April 14th, 2006, 04:46 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Dallas
Posts: 257
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Re: Pinker & BS-o-meters
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Originally Posted by Fred H.
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Again, I have to remind you that Margaret's feelings were hurt for valid reasons, as I did earlier here, http://www.behavior.net/bolforums/sh...=3225#post3225, which says:
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Originally Posted by Fred H.
Au contraire Tom—I did “clarify,†what didn’t really need to be clarified, in my subsequent post,
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What you wrote is not a clarification that would retract any insult:
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Originally Posted by Fred H.
It’s what the movie seemed to convey.
If indeed free will is an illusion, as you believe, then obviously so is morality, and moral blindness would be inevitable.
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In fact it just grinds the insult in further. There's nothing 'obvious' about your beliefs, which happen to be wrong.
Humans without free will still have a social instinct and their remorse module activates and makes them feel regret when they do something against those instincts; that's the only basis for your 'morality' no matter how much folklore you want to place around it. At least, those humans with a functional remorse module.
I don't 'decide' with 'free will' to feel uncomfortable when I run over even part of a dead dog on the freeway, much less a dead person; much, much less a live person. It's instinctive.
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You're at least not fooling me.
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