Edit>> Though now I see you said “politician”. If a judge is a politician (and there are at least five on the Supreme Court who are, due to their politics influencing decisions), then this at least answers in part.
Anyone who says we don’t have free will can come up with a thousand reasons we don’t.
Anyone who says we do have free will can come up with a thousand reasons we do.
It really doesn’t matter. All I know is that if I wanted to go on a murderous rampage, I could. I choose not to. For me, that means that I currently have control over myself and my actions. And on the same token, there is so much outside of my control that affects my trajectory in this life.
So there are illusions if you allow there to be. To me, we both have and don’t have free will depending on context.
Came here to pose exactly this. While I support proper and ethical law enforcement, the Snowden leak clearly showed just how unethical my own government is willing to be to enforce laws. So whatever tools I have at my disposal to prevent unlawful search and seizure, I will use them.
The corruption began at least with Reagan and continued until it was cemented with Citizens United. Now a large portion of politicians are bought and sold useless, spineless con artists and so many idiot voters eat it right up.
How can I, a citizen of many decades, be proud of a country that allowed itself to devolve so easily and quickly?
That is the whole point of the ruling -- to cause confusion and allow there to be an argument that it was an official act. It's clearly not and any logical and reasonable person would see that, but logic and reason doesn't exist in this country anymore.
ulkesh @ ulkesh @lemmy.world Posts 0Comments 292Joined 1 yr. ago
What objective evidence do you have of your premise that men dream as a male character and women dream as a female character?