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From: jwi@lzfme.att.com (Jim Winer @ AT&T, Middletown, NJ)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Free will and responsibility.
Summary: Locking upthe predictable
Keywords: Behaviorism, materialism, dogma, science
Message-ID: <1447@lzfme.att.com>
Date: 28 Jun 89 14:56:51 GMT
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Chris Malcolm

> >Don't we lock up unpredictable people in prisons and nuthouses?

Michael Ellis 

>     Sometimes it is the predictable ones who are more dangerous.

Jim Winer

It is always the *predictable* ones who are locked up.

	The antisocial who understand what they are doing are locked up in
	jails. Usually what they are doing is looking for a secure
	place to live and a sturctured environment where they don't 
	have to take personal responsibility for themselves.

	The antisocial who don't understand what they are doing are locked
	up in nuthouses. They are usually quite predictable, but we
	don't like the way they behave.

	The social (who fall into neither of the above categories) are
	locked up in the social fabric where they regularly bore
	each other to death.

We have never found a good way of dealing with the unpredictable
ones. They are the dangerous ones because they occasionally do
something absolutely disasterous to the social fabric -- like think.

Jim Winer ..!lzfme!jwi 

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