<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div>No, that's a description of somebody making an excuse about why they chose to act the way they did.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Will Steinberg <steinberg.will@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> ExI chat list
<extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Fri, March 5, 2010 1:06:58 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ExI] Social implications of widespread extropian/positivist ideals<br></font><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/3/5 Jeffery P. Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:heavensblade23@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:heavensblade23@gmail.com">heavensblade23@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div>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?<br></div></div></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>"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."</div></div>
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