If nobody has free will, can we blame anyone for what they're doing?
If nobody has free will, can we blame anyone for what they're doing?
Luis Miller
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Grayson Nguyen
I personally transcended reality, therefore I have free will
Eli Hughes
Go suck yourself off somewhere else
Adam Sanchez
You are my property, you don't get to command me
Alexander Gutierrez
>you are my property
Spank me senpai
Ryan Campbell
If free will does not exist, then no. Everybody is just a product of their environment. A machine running an algorithm. Can you blame a machine for doing as it is programmed to do?
Mason Nguyen
to be blamed is part of my destiny
Ayden Powell
I will but only because I want to.
Jose Nguyen
if nobody has free will, can you blame me for blaming others for what they're doing?
Benjamin Gomez
I always blame computers for freezing.
Owen Evans
It's not about blame, it's about control
Levi Sanchez
It's not the computers fault it's the programmers
Liam Morales
my computer is sapient, malevolent and actively conspires to make my life worse
no amount of evidence can convince me otherwise
David Lee
There wouldn't be blame per say but you could still have fault and error. When cars have air bags that fail they are removed until they are safe to exist in society, same would be same for individuals. A broken human would be on that does not function well within the whole they may not be necessarily "wrong" but would exist in conflict and thus in error. We would still have prisons and reconditioning but likely society would be more accepting of decommissioning the the irredeemable.
Bentley Allen
No, but we should still punish criminals and blame people for bad behavior, if only for pragmatic reasons. Philosophically, its debatable whether anyone can be objectively blamed for anything, but if we don't, it's obvious that shitty people will do more shitty things until the whole world just turns to shit.
Blame is a practical measure, not a moral one, and its a construct that is essential for any civilized society.
Ryan Parker
This. Furthermore, that principle determines WHICH things are worth assigning blame for. Namely, of whether assigning blame alters behavior or not.
Joseph Hall
Yes. Read Frankfurt on the principle of alternate possibilities, moral responsibility definitely still exists
Ethan Wilson
>can we blame anyone for what they're doing?
We don't really have a choice in the matter.
David Ramirez
Yeah, the way I see it is that even though people don't technically have free will, for all intents and purposes they do. People might not be in control of their decisions, but they still make them, y'know?
They still consciously decide to do things, even if they're unwittingly following a script. They still bear responsibility for their choices.
Jace Young
We have to, because society wouldn't work if we don't.
Ian Brown
I c etc
Oliver Lee
Avatar of existential realism here
You don't own anyone, no one is property for you to barter and trade. People are neither a commodity nor are you as ascended as you like to think. "Reality" as a concept is a spiritual deterrent that resets consistently to deflect people like you that would use "fantasy" to control the world.
John Hernandez
Not really, no. That's why acceptance of the lack of free will leads to more compassion.
And no, it doesn't prevent you from locking criminals up.