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The Atheist Experience episode 21.40 for October 15, 2017 with Matt Dillahunty and Don Baker.
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Strange call. Anyway, we know that punishment is a social phenomena that is not going away soon.
I suppose you could punish yourself when alone on a desert island, but I can't see the point.
It’s clear this guy just didn’t comprehend the book.
A good form of morality is to hold your hands up when you make a mistake e.g. murder, infanticide, rape, genocide, ethnic cleansing, criminal damage, cruelty to animals, fraud, blackmail, slavery, torture etc.
Therefore God is immoral.
These irresponsible US states have let religion turn their own citizens into ignorant, superstitious savages, unable to work in reality, unable to correctly evaluate data, unable to divorce fiction from non-fiction, treating both with the same level of credibility.
To be fair I'd get upset with anyone who tricked me into reading a Dan Dennet book. Good ideas, 0 charisma in making them accessible. It's like the most boring college lecture stretched into all day. Even in my preferred format of audio-book his voice is soporific
Mat your doing a great job for Jahovah, keep up the good work.
Hamurabi's Law is criminal and civil. Dennett would never say the things this idiot talks about. Dennett doubts Free Will, as now repudiated by Sapolski. We are driven by invisible forces we don't even feel. Besides being 35 yrs old,, the book does not offer anything his caller opines. He's missed the point completely. Try Sapolski's "Behave" on how Free will is a Christian fantasy.
The opposite of punishment is reward. How about giving drivers 50 cents every time they stop at a red light?
Caller ought to be punished for EXCESSIVE BULLSHIT ……………
I really don't see what free will has got to do with atheism.
Unless I have free will not to believe everything I've been told.
No, I don't believe there is a monster in Loch Ness.
No, I don't believe in Bigfoot.
The caller has read Dennett's book in a very weird way. To me it seems he misinterpreted virtually everything.
"Free will" is the ability to punish and blame people that fall outside of god's box of morals
if will isn't free we can just deterministically nod it off as-if nothing has changed.
This guy only read the last chapter of the book and very sloppy too.
There Dennett addresses why humans want free will and the fact that society wants to hold individuals responsible for their actions. Yes, he talks about punishment, because that is an aspect of it. But Dennett's book is not about punishment at all. Punishment is not the point of the book.
If the god of the bible had been portrayed as a king instead of a God , he would be remembered as the most evil, mass murdering, tyrannical dictator of all time! Christians give the bible god a free pass because, they say, he is god the creator. I don't see the difference whether man or god. If his actions were evil or immoral, as the bible states, then he'd be just as guilty of being evil as any human committing the same deeds.
Please get off the show, go contact Dennett and you hash it out with him…the rest of us are rolling our eyes.
a lot of idiots in florida.
Was the dude that called stoned are something?
If everything is determined, then it presents no problem for holding people accountable for their actions, since holding people accountable for their actions would be one of the events that would be determined to happen. Every determinist would be determined to be a determinist and every proponent of free will would be determined to be a proponent of free will.