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Re: Australian DJ Hoax call to Kate

Started by En_Route, December 12, 2012, 02:28:02 PM

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Quote from: xSilverPhinx on December 12, 2012, 12:55:58 PM
Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on December 12, 2012, 01:22:54 AM
Even if people have no free will, they can still be held accountable for their actions. This serves at least two purposes: 1) it may reform them (against their "will"); or 2) at least it keeps them from hurting others. 

Quote from: En_Route on December 12, 2012, 11:43:37 AM
Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on December 12, 2012, 01:22:54 AM
Even if people have no free will, they can still be held accountable for their actions. This serves at least two purposes: 1) it may reform them (against their "will"); or 2) at least it keeps them from hurting others. 

I think this is precisely the point.

Necessary I guess, but at the deepest underlying level probably more unfair than fair, especially if you are merely a conscious observer of events.

We are not built of course to serve the cause of abstract human constructs such as justice or fairness.
Some ideas are so stupid only an intellectual could believe them (Orwell).