[–] Nukeisrael 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago (edited ago)
Good. That’s an axiom for everyone who is wrong on how humans operate. I would argue that peer pressure, propaganda or advertising disproves free will. It’s why I hate libertarians or communists who think nature should bend its will to their ideology rather than the other way around. A sound ideology recognizes human behavior and molds it.
[–] Helena73 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
We are just information systems. Genes inform the design of our “hardware”, our architecture. Culture is the software, an operating system of sorts. You cant run shit software on good hardware and expect good results or vice versa.
Its upsetting to admit free will is an illusion. But I think the ultimate irony is that belief in free will may help the software run better.
The atheists around here, like atheists in general, tend to get demoralized easily. Those fucking Q people have probably done more to stand up to these communist freaks than any Nietzcheans seething in their basements. And Ill bet dollars to doughnuts Kyle loves Jesus Christ.
It may be that understanding how the system works may not be optimal.
[–] Nukeisrael 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
You don’t understand Nietzsche it you think that’s what he meant in his works. Humans are no different than any other animal. If I put I stick infront of a line of ants and they all “decide” to move out of the way of the barrier I placed are they still free will gods? Why did whites have 10 kids when we worked on farms and now 1.4 when we are in a post industrial modern society? Why do East Asians have 1.2 kids per family? Is this a choice? No way. You have to put the sticks in front of the ants and lead them. This magical thinking of some sort of god like magical free will is nonsense from the enlightenment. Everything wrong with the west can be traced back to the enlightenment which ironically Darwin under empiricism completely destroyed and later Watson. After we realized it was genes which people already assumed due to selective breeding it was just proven. It’s just so annoying, these people who blame the individual which is again an enlightenment belief only held in the west, that we are failing. A human is literally no different than an ant. It’s just lots of whimsical things go into pretending we are special when we are not. Starting from a meta biological determinist state everything comes together.