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- From: dekorte@ibm5.scri.fsu.edu (Stephen L. DeKorte)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins,alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Genes for Religious Tendency
- Message-ID: <11608@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 05:29:02 GMT
- References: <1992Dec3.234233.4182@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> <1992Dec7.184027.6638@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> <1992Dec9.175903.23582@city.cs>
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- In article <1992Dec9.175903.23582@city.cs> lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun) writes:
- In article <1992Dec7.184027.6638@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> young@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (young.u.huh) writes:
- >>They can simply say, "We're just born this way."
- >A very convenient line of argument. You can use it to `excuse'
- >any sort of behaviour.
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- Only if one falsely assumes that free will is neccesary for the
- administration of punishment. It all comes down to what you
- consider the purpose of punishment to be.
- Ex:Ask yourself:
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- Is the purpose of jail to right a wrong/just an injustice/get one eye for another?
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- Or is it to act as a deterent to crime and to protect society from harmfull elements
- by removing them from society and perphaps even reforming them?
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- >Anything which takes personal responsibility and answerability
- >away is very popular. Take the modern theory of evolution for
- >example. It denies the Creator so makes man free of His demands.
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- It also reminds us that nature's judgement(selection) has nothing to do
- with free will. (The Devil made me say that-but dont judge me,least yea be judged)
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- Steve Dekorte
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