Hi J-A, On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Jan-Anders Andersson <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry Marsha and Steve but you are definitely on the wrong way here.
Steve: I know you are, but what am I? J-A: > Free will is not an illusion. Free will is the ultimate basic condition for > unpredictability and ever changing identities. Steve: Is it? How do you know? You say this as though saying so makes it true. J-A: > It may be scary to grasp the personal responsibility it takes but without > free will there would be no future at all. Steve: No future?!!! Oh, my God! I need help. Please explain how the concept of free will is necessary to understand the nuances of moral culpability in the following examples... "1.A four-year-old boy was playing with his father’s gun and killed a young woman. The gun had been kept loaded and unsecured in a dresser drawer. 2.A twelve-year-old boy, who had been the victim of continuous physical and emotional abuse, took his father’s gun and intentionally shot and killed a young woman because she was teasing him. 3.A twenty-five-year-old man, who had been the victim of continuous abuse as a child, intentionally shot and killed his girlfriend because she left him for another man. 4.A twenty-five-year-old man, who had been raised by wonderful parents and never abused, intentionally shot and killed a young woman he had never met “just for the fun of it.” 5.A twenty-five-year-old man, who had been raised by wonderful parents and never abused, intentionally shot and killed a young woman he had never met “just for the fun of it.” An MRI of the man’s brain revealed a tumor the size of a golf ball in his medial prefrontal cortex (a region responsible for the control of emotion and behavioral impulses)." Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
