The very fact that a tendency might exist and we have potential and capacity to recognize it and to modify it or alleviate it is enough, though even if we couldn’t modify it, so long as we could act against it, free will exists.

By what mechanism are those tendencies modified, though? At what point is the predictive power of the presence of particular allele high enough that we can say its presence is deterministic? Does it have to be 100%? What if it's 95%? Can we really say that our will is entirely free if there is only a 5% chance of breaking with the effect of a certain allele? If the Monoamine Oxidase 2 Repeat allele causes a significantly increased likelihood of aggressive behavior, how high does that likelihood have to be for us to say that the allele at least partially determined behavior?

Keep in mind that the issue isn't so much that the allele acts as a form of stimulus, the issue is that this particular stimulus is present within the decision making capacity of the brain itself.

@Isabella Locke-MT. So basically magnetizing threat processing (a healthy, natural occurrence) out is acceptable in their minds, but shocking the gay (unnatural and unhealthy) out of someone wouldn't be... <:really:453005408064241674>

Yep. As long as it suits their needs, they don't care if they damage brains.

Substance abuse death at Google HQ in NYC? Say it ain't so....they're such high quality people.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/google-software-engineer-22-found-dead-at-new-york-headqaurters-report

So apparently it's really difficult to fire someone from a government job. Does this mean we could all get government jobs and be dox proof?

Or is it a lot more complicated than that?

You’d have trouble advancing in the best case

Yeah they can’t really fire you for opinions but a dox would make life harder ofc

Government jobs have lots of diversity hires who would make up reasons to fire you, but legally you're more protected there

Don't know if this is real but if it is....based Santa

Whitepill of the day

Snopes says it's fake, so I believe it.

Dang

Yeah, no one starts a jumping with a headbutt. C'mon guys

I don't know anything about fighting so

@Flint Excuse me, but Liam Neeson likes to start with a headbutt.

A fight, yeah, but not a jumping

So, France today:
Man lost a hand
Young lady lost an eye

French police forces are disgusting

I was just looking at that

a hand and an eye??

yeah

a young looking guy got his hand like..blasted off

it did not look good

https://twitter.com/FraProtestNews/status/1071500561181278208

here's the video of the girl

So I watched the movie cam on Netflix for a YouTube commentary on it. It’s going to be very hard to pick on this movie with a moral basis rather than critiquing the actual quality of the movie because holy hell that was awful

@Flint I can't believe Dr. Phil would betray us like that.

I couldn't put my finger on who he reminded me of

Just showed my dad some antifa rioting footage because he said they've never plowed their car through a crowd and he hit me with 'everyone war the US has been involved in a republican has been in office'

LBJ and Vietnam? FDR and WW2. Wilson and WWI? Clinton bombing Serbia? Obama bombing half the Middle East?
Not that republicans are better, but what is he on?

I have no idea

There just seems to be no getting to him, everytime I bring up how the dems want to ruin the country he just says 'but republicans'

"Muh Democracy"

anyone wanna play civ 5 w/ expansions with IE guys hmu

I don't know about you guys, but I wouldn't be on my knees with my hands on my head. Have these people never heard of passive resistance?

Or just simply saying no and take the beating

Dignity is an important thing to maintain