Frank wrote on May 27
th, 2024 at 3:45pm:
thegreatdivide wrote on May 27
th, 2024 at 3:14pm:
Frank wrote on May 27
th, 2024 at 2:36pm:
Well, what IS exempt from the random chance of "I didn't choose my parents"?
Nothing; your error in logic arises because you think chance has NO effect on individual outcomes.
Quote:What is exempt from 'everything" and "completely" if your views are subject to random backgrounds and parents?
My views (while growing up) were influenced by the views of MY parents, NOT random parents.
You are confusing my hypothetical "choice of parents" with the actual parents I had in this life.
You didn't choose your parents,
Correct.
Quote:so they were random FOR YOU.
Incorrect: they begat me, they were my actual parents; nothing random about it.
Quote:Being entirely a product of your random circumstances,
Refuted above, you are arguing from a wrong premise.
Quote: nothing is your choice, not even your support for the CCP, MMT, nothing. You do not have any individual autonomy, agency, choice.
..continuing your GIGO narrative: I can reason and make choices which began on the
foundations of my parents' experiences, beliefs and circumstances.
...just like you, but of course your 'foundations' ( as posited above) are very different to mine.
Quote:You are entirely conditioned by your background and things around that you have no power to alter since there is no 'you' only a subject of random outside influences, themselves nothing but effects of other random influences.
There's your erroneous misplacement of the word "entirely" again, combined with your errors re
randomness.
I can reason, beginning from the unique circumstances of my birth.
Quote:An idiot, in a word.
Again, you should have waited until I explained your errors for you.....
Hence you insist on claiming, for example, one of the drunk criminals in the Alice who is abusing his wife, has had exactly the same 'freedom'/opportunity to prosper, as eg, Jacinta Price.
It's an inadequate ideology.