[ExI] Social implications of widespread extropian/positivist ideals

[Jeffery P. Davis]

2010/3/5 Jeffery P. Davis <heavensblade23 at gmail.com>
>
> I see a bit of a contradiction here.  If people don't make choices, then
>> how can they can choose to become murderers after we do away with the
>> fiction of free-will?
>>
>
> "I'm not choosing to become a murderer, it's just what was fated, so I
> can't do anything about it and have got to be a murderer."
>
>
Which is why I go to on to say free will may be a fiction, but it's still a
useful way of looking the world.  :-)


-- 
"This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be
other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be
based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers.
We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can
oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.."
- William S. Burroughs
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