I found the arguments made by this student not so much incomprehensible as incoherent. I’m left wondering how he arrives at “justice” as an axiomatic ideal, given his abandonment of so many others.
His arguments about the deterministic nature of decision making seem to be at odds with observed non-deterministic behaviors in the physical world, in chaotic systems and systems influenced by quantum theory. Has he found empirical demonstrations that the human brain is uninfluenced by these factors, and that moral decisions are driven exclusively by deterministic biochemical processes?
You are right, but determinism dominates the academy because once you accept free will as a principle, you are accountable for your actions.
In a politically and economic lawless and sexually libertine environment, they HAVE to turn to determinism or they’d go crazy. That’s why we are such a threat to them. That’s why small business and private free enterprise is such a threat to them. That’s why the last holdouts against this juggernaut will be the petty bourgeoisie, small business owners, those of modest means who try to be responsible about life.
The Kulak understands freedom. The alienated masses do not, the super-rich in many cases have abandoned it, the professional leeching poltiical class is scared to death of belief in free will and freedom.