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Scientist concludes: "We don't have free will" (www.latimes.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months 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.