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01-23-07
Is there anything on Earth nearly as depressing as the idea that man is basically good, all things are according to God's plan, and God can do no wrong? How cynical is it to think that this is what the world looks like when things are going well?
Self-causation is a logical necessity of existence. Free will hinges upon it. Given that any theory attempting to explain human behavior outside of free will is, usually admittedly, untestabled, and therefore irrelevant and victim to Occam's razor, I see nothing wrong with the conclusion: things are this way because we have made them so. When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
- John Adams |