Religious women push lawmakers to investigate Kavanaugh, suspend confirmation

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70. Well he was a super-man...pun intended...but

I don't agree with Mr. N on there being no such thing as evil. It's not a supernatural thing obviously. But it's a relative term we use to describe those activities which produce some degree of harm, to oneself or others.

It's certainly not a rigid word with plenty of definitional wiggle room, but it's also not non-existent either.

I think free will is necessary to make a life remotely meaningful or purposeful.

If you are a controlled automaton then the point is what? I think you implicitly see that by saying "significantly more limited."

Free will requires you the ability to make any choice, choose any action. If you are limited in the choices and actions you can do, then you don't have free will.

Heck, those folks who argue that we DON'T have free will make that very point by arguing that our nature/nurture combo by necessity limits our range of choices (an introvert won't do this, an extrovert won't do that, someone who's been traumatized by an event won't do this). Thus, they argue, because we cannot control our nature or our environment, that we are stuck in the pathways those two things generate. I think there's some validity to that argument but ultimately I reject it.

At any rate, I don't think given enough technology we can create such a world. Someone will always come around and use that technology in ways not intended. Or the definition of suffering and evil will change. What does it mean to be "poor" in 2018 vice what does it mean to be "poor" in 1818? It's relative. If I tell you I live in a small shack in 2018 with no electricity or utilities, you will probably conclude I'm poor...if I say the same in 1818 you will ask what the heck is electricity and utilities and that's a decent shack you have there.