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Comment Re:Yawn. (Score 1) 610

"Do you really walk around thinking you don't have free will?"

Yes.

"Intuitively we grasp that our actions have consequences, and that, in order to get the consequences we want, we have to choose the right actions."

We have to 'perform' the right actions. And you assume that you are free to choose the consequences that you want, which of course, you aren't.

"We all do stupid things, and a lot of people try to pass off the responsibility for their actions to other people, but as a society we have decided to hold each accountable for their own deeds."

Probably yes, but that's got nothing to do with whether strong free-will actually exists. Societies protects themselves, that is why people are punished and deterred, it's convenient (but unnecessary) to justify it by claiming freedom of choice.

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The Washington Post is reporting on a finding by London-based group Privacy International. In a new report, they find that Google has some of the worst privacy-protection practices anywhere on the web, giving them the lowest possible grade. "While a number of other Internet companies have troubling policies, none comes as close to Google to 'achieving status as an endemic threat to privacy,' Privacy International said in an explanation of its findings. In a statement from one of its lawyers, Google said it aggressively protects its users' privacy and stands behind its track record. In its most conspicuous defense of user privacy, Google last year successfully fought a U.S. Justice Department subpoena demanding to review millions of search requests."

Comment Re:A small difference (Score 1) 444

I think you are wrong.

"You declare your religious affiliation based on your religious beliefs."

Are you claiming that religious beliefs are not chosen? Do you think they are genetically or culturally determined and you cannot change them? Are you referring to the gullibility gene?

Many believers I know would claim that the choice to 'have faith' is critical to their spirituality. I don't know how having faith in the unknowable can be anything other than choice.

Equally, your political agenda is a choice, as are your political allegiances both as a consequence of, and independently of your agenda.

Do you think it is impossible to become a Muslim other than by birth?

Or have I missed your point and you agree that belief is choice, but that the associated affiliation is not a choice? If so I still think you are wrong.

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