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Scientist concludes: "We don't have free will" (www.latimes.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Under that kind of analysis, there is no 'we' that can even be meaningfully spoken about.

Not to mention, the same brain chemistry that drives someone to commit a crime will also drive someone to seek some kind of justice or retribution, and so if we're considering biology to be holy for some reason, that goes both ways.