[ExI] Everett worlds

[SR Ballard]

That being why I wrote “if free will is wrong”, that is, if it doesn’t exist.

SR Ballard

> On Aug 16, 2020, at 3:15 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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