Believers in free will like to claim that their view of humans is warmer and more dignifying than that of cold, mechanistic determinists. But we’d probably treat people with more warmth and dignity if we accepted that they ultimately did not choose to be who they are.
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Well I was alluding more to the idea therein that if life has such an arbitrariness to it, human being being inscrutable, that this should elicit sympathy. It should lead, in other words, to an ethic of seeing one’s self as another.
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