On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 7:40 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: >> The only other meaning of "free will" that I know of that isn't >> gibberish is the inability to always know what we will do next before we do >> it even in an unchanging environment, but almost nobody uses that meaning >> so all that remains is the sound that chunks of meat make when they flap >> together. >> >>> > > I agree with you on this one. FW as the inability to know what someone > will do next (including yourself) >
Someone else could know exactly what you are going to do next, but the important thing is that you do not. And you may know when the birdy will pop out of the cuckoo clock but the birdy doesn't so the birdy has free will. Hey I didn't say the definition was profound just that it wasn't gibberish. > leads to the idea that someone born poor, who is as a result uneducated > and can only get menial jobs (say) is somehow "responsible" for their > position in society because they've "failed" in some way, and they are then > blamed > They have certainly failed but It's not a question of blame or punishment . If you like me think that it's a bad thing that poor people are uneducated then the solution is to educate them. John K Clark > (particularly by people of a right wing persuasion) for something theyhad > no control over. > > So it's actually a dangerous notion politically, and not just > philosophically meaningless. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
