Re: How free is our will?

On 19 Apr, 13:16, DaleKelly <THEREALDARK...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:22:48 -0700, brogers wrote:
Is there anybody around
who is more responsible for the crime than you?

by your logic, the need to lock someone up is more important than guilt,
why not just pick anyone to lock up

That certainly does not follow from anything I said.

If you commit a crime, there is certainly no one more responsible for
the crime than you. Your conscious experience of deciding to do the
crime may be a sort of illusion, but you are guilty nonetheless.





--http://www.dalekelly.name

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