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11091345 No.11091345 [Reply] [Original]

Well, here you are anon. The eyes of the nation are upon you. You have 40 seconds to impress the judges with your very own original philosophical insight on the topic of your choice.

Your time starts now.

>> No.11091349

Democracy advocates are the biggest control freaks.

>> No.11091354

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>> No.11091379

>>11091345
The justice system is based on an unjustified a priori assumption of free will and moral culpability, natural for an institutional that is an accumulation of several centuries of reform and debate. If we are wrong on this basic assumption, then our entire judiciary turns into nothing more a cruel and inhumane game, a spectacle, with no real relation to "justice" in any meaningful sense of the word at all. This is a pressing moral question which ought to be investigated with rigour and pathos rather than waved off as irrelevant or speculative.

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i've been reflecting on this and in the end all i can think of is that jesus saves.

so here you go lads. have a medal and good luck.

>> No.11091541

>>11091379
But if theres no free will the accusers are no better

>> No.11091552

>>11091379
You have to be 18 to post here

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>>11091379
Looks like somebody just picked up Sam Harris and got his fedora blown off the top of his head

>> No.11091602

There is nothing to suggest that our intelligence is not artificial. We have no critical frame of reference.

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>>11091535
Thank you, anon, I've wanted to know the meaning of that medal, I really appreciate it.

>> No.11091645

>>11091379
I'll translate:
>I'm sixteen and just recently got charged with illegal possession of marajuana. My parents still make me go to church but I've been enlightened by Neil degaysey Tyson and a handful of youtubers with british accents who use the word 'skeptic' in reference to themselves and have concisely refuted Thomas Aquinas in a 12 minute video that utilized cartoon and sticker depictions of the dialectic. Since they are obviously the coolest and most intelligent guys ever I've been trying to imitate them so I can get finally laid

>> No.11091967

>>11091541
Yeah, but the point is less to do with conversely assuming that free will doesn't exist than by accounting for and entertaining the possibility and its serious implications while we're in limbo, so to speak.
>>11091552
>>11091560
>>11091645
Interesting reaction, why are you so incensed? Notice how I didn't even say that free will doesn't exist, but that our assumption is entirely uncertain, and that its only if our assumption is wrong that justice is compromised. Remember that my point is that the very fact that our moral assumption is unjustified means we shouldn't wave this off as speculation, but that if we are truly concerned with morality and justice, we should investigate the possibility. Your angry replies refuse to entertain the idea. What is the bad faith supposed to demonstrate?

As for the last poster, I admire Aquinas and Thomistic philosophy and grew up in a secular family and started going to church of my own volitiion when I became an adult. And as far as I know, Sam Harris just says something like "free will doesn't exist but we should act like it does anyway", which is far removed from anything I'm discussing in both the grandiosity of its claims and the moral integrity I'm perhaps stubbornly trying to preserve. Try Galen Strawson instead.

>> No.11091985

globes n maps are all shite innit

>> No.11092006

>>11091345
If you sit on your hand till it becomes numb, then it feels like a different person when you jerk it.

>> No.11092048

Every dollar put towards philosophy is a dollar not put toward genetically engineering catgirls for domestic ownership.

>> No.11092143

people die when they are killed

>> No.11092597

Free will is a concept which is the product of biological ignorance.

>> No.11092623

A person is free only when it become conscious of what makes it not free, and that consciousness can only be acquired through a refutation of one's own will.

>> No.11093953

bump, these moralists need to be shut down..

>> No.11093967

God is undead