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That there is no free will. (and a few things deducted from that, like how anyone is innocent in some way and how this relates to criminal justice (protect society, resocialize, but never revenge)).
My belief that I have free will has huge benefits for me ;-)
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Some people with ASPD (antisocial personality disorder) can't (don't want to) be fixed.
"Don't want to be" assumes free will, which I reject. "Can't" is still no justification for revenge. Even if we assume that the "can't" is absolute, re-socialization should be attempted for the rest of the life of the individual. See it as an analogy to medicine: we don't say, "this guy cannot be helped, so we'll just let him die."
¹ something in this direction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halden_Prison
That there is no free will. (and a few things deducted from that, like how anyone is innocent in some way and how this relates to criminal justice (protect society, resocialize, but never revenge)).
If there is no free will why even think about how to organize criminal justice. Surely the outcome of that is also predetermined, as it's formed by people without free will.
What you are asking is, "if there is no free will, then why are you thinking about criminal justice out of your own free will?"
None of us is "doing" anything, it just happens.
Here is a little experiment: next time you talk to someone, try to find out what you will be saying before you actually say it. Maybe, there will be a surprise.
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Yeah, I agree. Psychologically, I found it's easiest to simply not use raises in income.
Well, I think you need to find a balance. Don't blow through everything, but also enjoy life because you only live once. I know guys who save up to the last penny to try and achieve financial freedom. It's infinitely easier (and more efficient) to try to make more money than it is to, for example, not buy the occasional starbucks coffee.
On the other hand if you are already progressing through a career I suspect it's easier to trim spending than work further up the ladder.
The Starbucks thing is a red herring, most people overspend on cars, housing and food.
Once you attain this awareness as part of growing up, the only way to drown out the awareness of this deplorable state of the human existence, is to numb the mind with drugs or to damage the brain to such a degree that it stops mattering to you.
I may be preaching to the choir here (because this is largely a tech audience) but I don't buy into the stereotype that gamers play videogames (video games?) because of laziness or sloth or some other unfairly negative characteristic misattributed to them. I saw a post on Reddit where a group of gamers had recreated King's Landing, the main city from Game of Thrones, in Minecraft. The entire project looked like it to…
Just adding a data point here: I played video games (90s super nintendo) when I was a kid primarily for the music/artwork. Then the internet came along where I could enjoy the art without hitching my time to a game. With my time unencumbered, it wasn't hard to discover that reality is a better game with better music.
I guess what I'm curious of is this: What do games offer these people that reality doesn't? I'm not talking about people who play casually here and there, but rather people who spend well over twenty hours per week playing games, sometimes longer.
I may be preaching to the choir here (because this is largely a tech audience) but I don't buy into the stereotype that gamers play videogames (video games?) because of laziness or sloth or some other unfairly negative characteristic misattributed to them. I saw a post on Reddit where a group of gamers had recreated King's Landing, the main city from Game of Thrones, in Minecraft. The entire project looked like it to…
I saw someone before who built a primitive "computer" in Minecraft