by Wowsar February 10, 2020
Hym "Ok, 'If *Jordan Peterson is wrong, people are just animals' is a thing Alex O'Conner unironcally just said on triggernometry just now. So, that's where the 'plant' accusations are coming from. And it's adjacent to the psychopathic 'If God isn't real then I get to do whatever I want.' Rhetoric. But you were doing that anyway and then using the religion to forgive yourself for doing that anyway. And Alex is a determinist. Without free will there is no meaning. The meaning of all your actions is 'the chemicals in your brain (and I know I'm being reductive here but the logic still tracks) made you do the thing you're doing. Determinism totally incompatible with meaning but NOT totally incompatible with God."
by Hym Iam March 28, 2024