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  1. Gjallarhorn

    Atheism, Autism and Narcissism

    Because people say all sorts of things without actually saying them. We call it "implying".
  2. Gjallarhorn

    What's your diagnosis?

    Present!
  3. Gjallarhorn

    More about free will

    You're overthinking, and not in the clever way. No one has to take responsibility for the error. The only thing people have to take responsibility for is the correction of the error, and really it could be anyone. We have a legal and criminal system whose functions are to diagnose and correct...
  4. Gjallarhorn

    More about free will

    And yet in this case the manufacturer cannot be contacted. Recall goes on regardless.
  5. Gjallarhorn

    More about free will

    A correction but a more effective one. Punishment assumes the person has acted solely of their own volition and therefore punishment will (somehow) deter further crime, despite actual data gathered about recidivism. Rehabilitation assumes people are the product of circumstances and must be...
  6. Gjallarhorn

    Atheism, Autism and Narcissism

    Or that their neck-beards and fedoras look silly on them.
  7. Gjallarhorn

    Righteous Indignation is an excuse

    And I wouldn't feel the need to mask my action in something more noble than anger. The term is obsolete unless you feel uneasy about acting out of anger.
  8. Gjallarhorn

    More about free will

    Perhaps "excuse" was the wrong word. Lack of free will doesn't make murder irrelevant. Legal systems can continue to function (without double-think) if shifted to a rehabilitation system rather than a retributive system.
  9. Gjallarhorn

    Atheism, Autism and Narcissism

    They're not creative enough, or not religious enough, or too religious, or so I've derived from previous threads.
  10. Gjallarhorn

    The Word is true

    ...what are we debating?
  11. Gjallarhorn

    Righteous Indignation is an excuse

    And causing chaos in public by flipping tables isn't? It all reeks of special pleading.
  12. Gjallarhorn

    Buddhism and neuroscience

    It's not a scientific revelation. It's just a statement. A tautology in fact.
  13. Gjallarhorn

    Righteous Indignation is an excuse

    Jesus got angry and acted out of anger. Dressing it up in special terminology doesn't change this fact. If someone insults my family and I punch them in the face, I am not being "righteously indignant". I am being an ***. Call it what you will but acting out of anger is not "righteous".
  14. Gjallarhorn

    What If We Admitted to Children That Sex Is Primarily About Pleasure?

    I don't even want to imagine the Wiki Walk that will ensue. "Daddy, do I need to get a pilot's license to have sex?"
  15. Gjallarhorn

    More about free will

    I agree, except for the beginning. Everything else is a unfolding of that first moment.
  16. Gjallarhorn

    More about free will

    Your false equivocation of free will and random action is noted. The beginning was random. There is no free will. "Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them. If a man's choice to...
  17. Gjallarhorn

    More about free will

    Yes. And yeah, we can analyze our minds, but not very well. It's the equivalent of chimps trying to do calculus.
  18. Gjallarhorn

    More about free will

    I'm gonna stop you here because frankly, you started rambling. Of course a corpse is less complex. So is a broken computer. Computers are naturally complex, just like humans. The only difference is we built computers, so we can analyze it. The human mind and nervous system is the product...
  19. Gjallarhorn

    More about free will

    Not at all. Humans are more complex than rocks. They change and grow complexly, which makes them unpredictable...to humans.
  20. Gjallarhorn

    More about free will

    Rocks change and grow, given enough time. Human bias litters your argument.
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