WOTM: It's A Rigged System!
This one is actually a bit of a follow-up to the Mr. Deity episode. Maybe... wait to watch it until I have that posted here? Again, so sorry!!! If you watch it now, I think it'll be fine...(?). Hopefully.
Thanks again. B
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This reminds me of my Seafood argument against free will. I dislike seafood. I never *decided* to dislike seafood, I just think it tastes bad. Since I never chose this dislike, it means this preference was *imposed* upon me. And it affects my behaviors and choices, especially in seafood restaurants. What about all my other preferences? They seem to be similarly imposed. I can play the children's game of repeatedly asking "Why?" regarding my preferences, and they all quickly resolve to the helpless observation that, "That's just the way I am." I can only act according to an arbitrary smorgasbord of imposed preferences, none of them chosen by me and instead imposed by... wait for it... Circumstance!
Yep!!! That’s a great way to put it — imposed!
People treat the mentally ill as if they are not responsible for their actions because they can only behave the way their brain structure allows, not realizing that all of us are in the same boat, acting the only way our brain structures allow.
Once again, spot on!
Ooooh... You said "motherfucker" (naughty-naughty) 😉
I’m a very naughty boy!
As we've discussed before, it's all luck. Pure luck. It's pathetic how our egotistical self-awareness fights tooth and nail against that reality.