X-Message-Number: 17027
From: "Graham  Hipkiss" <>
References: <>
Subject: Re: CryoNet #17013 
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 02:05:12 +0100

> Message #17013
> From: "Joseph W. Morgan" <>
> Subject: We are responsible for our actions.
> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 06:35:22 -0700
>
>
> Robert Ettinger, Cryonet 16998: "From the broadest perspective, no one
deserves blame (or credit either) for
> anything at all. We each do what we can and what we must, no more and no
less. No one made himself, and no one created his own environment--we are
all equally victims or beneficiaries of blind chance."
>
> I can't believe you said that.

Why not? It's perfectly logical and well phrased.
Surely, we are we only machines. Organic, aqueous, feeling, complex....but
machines.

> We do have free will and we are responsible for our actions.

I don't believe we do have free will any more than our computers have free
will. We react according to the way we are made (our genes) and the way we
are programmed (our environment). We should, of course, be made responsible
for our actions, but that's a different matter.

Graham Hipkiss

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