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Subject: Re, Re, Re, Rosen on Reason, Cha Cha Cha!
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Date: Fri, 15-Mar-85 17:57:15 EST
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I have been following with interest (and through heavy lenses, till now)
the discussion on free will.  Sic 'em Laura!

But a thought popped into my head the other night ( I say it this way to give
Rich a place to start his reply!) when I was watching the rerun of CAPTIANS
AND KINGS, one of the best series ever shown on TV!

Anyway, there is a place in the series where a senator is being blackmailed
by the protagonist.  The dialog goes something like this.

"We came up the same way, but we turned out differently." (honest Senator)

"I am what the world has made me!" (blackmailer)

"No, we have our choices!  We all have our choices."  (Senator)

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Just so the difference of opinion I see on the net.  In the cool crisp 
light of the arm chair, one can reason away free will as a theory that
can't be supported, but in the sweat of the real world it doesn't hold
up that we are what we eat or something.  Law, ethics, religion, truth, 
beauty, thought even, sets us out to be creatures who 'move' and 'act'
rather than part of the great cosmic molecule!  

That way lies madness!!!!

Regards,

Ken Arndt