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- Thu Oct 22, 2015 7:47 am
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: free will: not all it's cracked up to be
- Replies: 29
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Re: free will: not all it's cracked up to be
Like so many other questions, it's all about the definitions. Go to wikipedia, and "free will" is defined as the ability to choose between different possible courses of action. That's the common sense meaning, and so of course we have free will. Now if God existed and knew the position and...
- Fri Sep 11, 2015 11:00 pm
- Forum: Applied Ethics
- Topic: If you could save the world by killing someone, would you do it?
- Replies: 55
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Re: If you could save the world by killing someone, would you do it?
Anyone who says he wouldn't is almost surely lying. If he truly believes that it would be wrong to do so, he has no actual concern for other people, he thinks morality consists of a set of rules, he isn't a moral individual by my standards, and most likely not a decent person.