there are plenty of compatibilists who are explicitly against retributivism. dennett is one
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Then I propose that your assertion, while not proven wrong, lacks key supporting data
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duly noted i'll also freely admit that On A Pale Horse is without qualification a good book and it's a shame he had no idea what made it one
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For the most part, Anthony is a classic Golden Age writer, as in "The Golden Age of Science Fiction is fourteen." Best example is the "Bio of a Space Tyrant" books. Loved them when I was young. Can't imagine trying to read them now.
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lol given the polemic throughline of those i definitely see why i appreciated them when i was thirteen and also am pretty sure it was not good for me to be reading them
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He is a super nice man and I loved the Xanth books when I was a kid so I am prone to defending him, but I have no illusions about the quality of much of his work.
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Also come on how can you not love a guy who refuses to give up on a porn novel he wrote in the Seventies and publishes it twenty years laterhttps://boingboing.net/2010/06/14/piers-anthonys-pornu.html …
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I didn't even know that book existed until ninety seconds ago and now I think I must have it
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