Message from @Flint
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Your tendency to be hungry when you don’t eat is determined too. That is not, philosophically speaking, related to free will at all
Only the choice to eat or not eat
A better comparison would be the tendency to actually act on hunger, which would be a form or determinism. How can we say that our will is entirely free if the mechanism used to determine that will is itself held captive by certain tendencies?
You aren’t “held captive” you do indeed still have a choice regardless of the urge. And as you’ve claimed, “we can modify our tendancies”
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
I don't know anything about fighting so
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
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'