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Long time no post, but this is a good article to break the dry spell (from Tom Clark’s Memeing Naturalism Blog):

Memeing Naturalism: Supernatural Dignity or Domestic Bliss?
Well, maybe seeing ourselves as “mere” animals is to lose dignity, in particular the dignity of having a higher, soul-based nature that isn’t susceptible to training and other influences. OK, but if you insist on such dignity, you also let slip the dogs of blame, contempt and moral superiority, which feed on the idea that people really could have done otherwise, whatever their circumstances, or that they’re literally self-made in some respect. So what do you most want: the improbable supernatural dignity of being a causal exception to nature, or domestic bliss?

Indeed, it seems strange that people insist on everybody having free will, when the only thing this causes is strife and anger.

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