Philosophy

[ChrisV]

@econophile

Take this to the philosophy thread. I will happily talk about free will or lack thereof there.

@suzzer99

I moved from KC to SF, was I not exercising free will on changing my tribe?

Even among everyone who stayed in KC, the more open-minded, ambitious people tend to move to the urban core, while the dullards who make up Trump’s base tended to stay put in Blue Springs. Those were choices.

You made a decision to be on this site, and you made a decision to be in the lefty sub-tribe within the tribe.

“Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.”

– Schopenhauer

@suzzer99

And again none of this matters because functionally if I hit myself in the head right now, I decided to do that, and my life plays out the exact same afterwards, whether I had free will or not.

This is true and it’s rational to live your life as though you have free will. Where it matters is whether we should treat other people like they have free will or not.