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Empathic concern does not reduce partisan animosity: study

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Re: Empathic concern does not reduce partisan animosity: study

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Based on what you're saying, it's immoral to send the shooter to prison or punish him in any way since he had no control over his actions and therefore was not guilty of assault or murder. Bet that theory goes right out the window when it's someone you know lying dead in a pool of blood. Does this apply to all actions? In that case mortality simply doesn't exist and there cannot be good or bad things. How far do you…

> Based on what you're saying, it's immoral to send the shooter to prison or punish him in any way since he had no control over his actions and therefore was not guilty of assault or murder. No, it's not; determinism applies to the punisher as much as the punished, so if the fact of determinism negates any moral culpability for the act being punished, then it likewise does so for the punishment.

Moral & immoral are just words for sharing human expression from one to another. In a sense the words are nonsensical when understanding determinism. Now with the foregoing communicated, humans should strive for improving life and understanding the current system is deeply flawed.

Re: Empathic concern does not reduce partisan animosity: study

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> we have a hard time defining the minimums of free speech. In what sense? Legally, for example, we don't.

What about shouting fire in a crowded theater? I've had lengthy debates about whether that should be allowed or not, and if we still "have" free speech if we disallow it.

The ever relevant Hitchens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aePgiW0Km_0

(I don't necessarily share his very individualized approach/view.)

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