[ExI] Social implications of widespread extropian/positivist ideals

[Christopher Luebcke]

No, that's a description of somebody making an excuse about why they chose to act the way they did.

The pointless defense you're looking for is, "I was not, am not, and will never be in control of my actions." Such a person needs to be permanently locked away, so that the rest of us can get on with our illusion-filled, largely homicidal-maniac-free lives.



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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?
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"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."
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