On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 11:19:43PM -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
As a useful fiction to persuade people, certainly (actually persuade
assumes free will,
If you say so. Of course, that is a meaningless statement.
But, ought is rather meaningless without free will.
That's okay. Free will is
On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 04:47:12PM -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
Morality is about ought. This leads one to conclude that,
since morality is meaningless without ought, morality is rather
meaningless.
No, that does not follow. Rules govern a system. They have meaning in
that system. Free will, as
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 11:02:26PM -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 07:46:46PM -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
At some level, yes. But all moralities aren't created equal. Some
are clearly better than others, in that some will almost surely
We've had this discussion before -- the concept of free-will as you use
it is just as useless a concept as god. But morality, as I've argued
above, is quite useful in progressing towards goals.
As a useful fiction to persuade people, certainly (actually persuade
assumes free will, the uttering
