Episode 78 - Supernatural contradictions, free will, behaviorism and determinism, compatibilism

Evil is the most unnecessary thing Does evil come from our free will, as granted by "God"? The concept of God can't be defined coherently "God," a placeholder for good parents? The people in power first used religion to control people After the scientific revolution, they used determinism and behaviorism The more correct knowledge you have, the better choices you tend to make The Crucial Faculty Of Choice http://www.logicallearning.net/libfreewill.html The senses are valid means of acquiring knowledge via reason; anything else is contradictory The metaphysical laws are needed to logically understand reality http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/axiomatic_concepts.html http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/axioms.html Laws of identity, causality, and non-contradiction http://www.logicallearning.net/libidentitycausa.html Religions promote the principle of sacrifice in ethics Individual rationality is sacrificed to religious doctrines and rituals So few parents apologize for having their kids indoctrinated in religion and statism Disobedience is punished in both religion and statism "Laws" are based on operant conditioning, with punishment for breaking them The carrots and sticks of statism don't treat people as reasoning beings "God" and determinism are confessions of ignorance Human consciousness is essentially a conceptual faculty (inextricably tied to volition) The idea that you don't make choices is basically a really bad meme Compatibilism reconciles brain causality with volition Volition is a manifestation of causal properties in the brain in relation to its environment We are autonomous, reasoning creatures that make our own choices Our choices can't be determined by "society" or "government" or "God" Both bad parenting and governmental schools stifle individual free will Radical unschooling enables children to take responsibility and make their own choices Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn http://www.alfiekohn.org/books/pbr.htm Posturing as the authority over another person's mind is a monstrous moral contradiction Wealthy people tend to have even bigger rationalizations for goodness of government The phrase "happy to pay taxes" is slavespeak for sanctioning evil If various governmental "services" are wanted in a free market, they'll be chosen and funded voluntarily Pragmatism is the dominant anti-philosophy in America, if not the world http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/pragmatism.html Can anybody ever consent to the State? by Rad Geek http://radgeek.com/gt/2009/01/08/can_anybody/ No government rules by consent, and no government possesses just powers Taxation is simply extortion that enslaves individuals in society The nature of evil is to initial force and destroy another's choices People's reluctance to acknowledge tyranny is deeply psychological The future of humanity resides within the child bumper music "Freewill" by Rush http://www.rush.com/ to comment, please go to http://completeliberty.com/magazine/category/91697