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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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Please stick to the precise question.
"If true justice exists, whereby every unjust action has an immediate negative effect on the person acting (theft means something of yours get stolen, stabbing means the knife turns on you, arson means your possessions get burnt) is free will possible, or do we for ever avoid (by not acting) the negative consequence?"
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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marc
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Registered: March 2003
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Just as in sex, where there are those willing to endure pain and/or humiliation there will be a segment of the population that would risk the immediate "retrebution" for the thril of committing the act.
For instance, theivery could logically be looked upon as a method of redecorating.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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In this mythical perfect world you speak of, their would still exsist imperfect human beings. So you could count on people doing things contrary to their own well being.
Just the way I see it.
Kevin
"Be excellent to each other, and, party on dudes"!
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However, some would argue that even in THIS world we have no free will, for if our actions are not merely random acts (which would be absurd) and we instead base each decision on a prior occurence then it only follows that every choice we made or make in life was or is pre-determined and, therefore, no one can be held morally responsible for his or her actions, whether beneficial or detrimental.
Though, in the instance you mentioned I believe - as has already been previously stated - that people would have just as much "free will" as they have in this world.
I have to ask, too, does this "balancing" effect occur on positive actions as well? Would everything that one does simply even itself out in the end? Just wondering.
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