Free Will, Science, and Religion

George mentioned Donald Trump called Rosie O'Donnell a fat pig in the recent republican debates. Why is it acceptable to mock people for being fat in the culture and even be allowed to promote themselves as a politician? This type of blame requires the free will belief....

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Chandler Klebs, Michael Laster, and George Ortega talk about politicians and specifically how republicans base everything on free will belief. The free will belief allows blaming people for being poor, overweight, mentally ill, and other countless things that people have no choice in....

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When people don't have a real explanation, they use a non-explanation. Free will is one of those common explanations to explain the unexplanable. Some people use God, some Unicorns, some randomness, and others free will....

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Chandler, Mitch, Jamie, and David start out by briefly explaining how they came to see free will as an illusion. Later on we moved into other topics such as the documentary Super Size Me and the topic of hat shaming being targeted at mostly women....

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Chandler Klebs and George Ortega talk about the topics of weight gain and how people's inability to lose weight is not something they can be blamed for. For many people this is more of a personal way of understanding why free will based blame is harmful and unnecessary....

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Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and David Joseph talk about why nobody is fundamentally responsible for being fat! One the the major problems with the belief in Free Will is that it allows people to blame and punish people for things such as their sexuality because it is assumed that they could at an....

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Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and Jamie Soden have understood for some time why free will is an illusion and know that they don't control anything. However, fully living under this new view takes time to get used to....

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There are many different ideas about morality. For some it's based on an authority figure that tells them what is right or wrong. For others, it's all about empathy and the hedonic imperative. Whatever you believe morality is, an investigation of the prior causes that led you to follow that system w....

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Chandler Klebs, George Ortega, and Mitch J talk about the reasons behind why people make mistakes and do what is not even in their best interest. This is a powerful example that shows we don't have the control some of us think we do....

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When people believe they have a free will, they feel responsible for their actions including those that cause harm to others. To avoid the pain of guilt, they go into denial by ignoring the problem or by justifying their actions....

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