[ExI] Everett worlds

[William Flynn Wallace]

SR Ballard wrote - *People cannot change themselves, they are fully at the
whim of outside forces and cannot be held accountable. *
*This is assuming no free will, I suppose.  Otherwise it's nonsense.  bill
w*

On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 2:50 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 2:03 PM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> *> I’m sorry but if free will is wrong then there is no crime or guilt. No
>> motivation. People cannot change themselves, they are fully at the whim of
>> outside forces and cannot be held accountable. *
>>
>
> Sure they can. The only reason to hold anyone accountable for doing a bad
> thing is to prevent more bad things from happening in the future. That's
> justice, doing more than that, making an evil doer suffer just for the joy
> of watching him suffer is vengeance. The threat of punishment is just one
> more outside force pushing people in the direction of not hurting other
> people, and I like that direction. I don't like vengeance.
>
>  John K Clark
>
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