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diff --git a/content/entry/understanding-precludes-hate.md b/content/entry/understanding-precludes-hate.md index 57fc516..904e299 100644 --- a/content/entry/understanding-precludes-hate.md +++ b/content/entry/understanding-precludes-hate.md @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ The premise of this entry is simple: Understanding precludes hate. Ignorance cau I've used this example before and I'll use it again. If a bear mauls to death someone you love, you don't hate the bear. Although losing a loved one would have a big negative consequence on your life, you couldn't hate that bear even if you wanted, because you know it's just a bear doing what bears do. It's not responsible for what happened. -What's I find extremely fascinating is that when it comes to humans, unlike with bears, we do assign responsibility. It's not just that if a human did the same as the bear, we would send that human to jail. Even if we didn't see the human as ultimately responsible, we'd still have incarceration in order to rehabilitate them, or at least protect the rest of society from them. Blame in the sense of culpability is valuable. We need to know who to put in jail. +What I find extremely fascinating is that when it comes to humans, unlike with bears, we do assign responsibility. It's not just that if a human did the same as the bear, we would send that human to jail. Even if we didn't see the human as ultimately responsible, we'd still have incarceration in order to rehabilitate them, or at least protect the rest of society from them. Blame in the sense of culpability is valuable. We need to know who to put in jail. But here I'm using the word "blame" to mean an assignment of ultimate responsibility for one's actions, of the sort that seems to justify punishment for its own sake. This ties in with my [previous](/2020/06/19/free-will-is-incoherent-part-1/) [entries](/2020/08/22/free-will-is-incoherent-part-2/) titled "Free Will is Incoherent". In those entries, I agree with Sam Harris that not only does free will not exist, but it's incoherent. That is to say it's impossible to imagine a universe in which it does exist. If you want to understand why, refer back to those entries. |