This means accepting that a man who shoots into a crowd has no more control over his fate than the victims who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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Absolutely fallacious contention.
This isn’t supposed to be philosophy. We aren’t debating Plato or Kant or Nietzsche.
The man who shoots into a crowd didn’t have a friggin seizure which caused him to procure the weapon, bring the weapon, survey for crowds, and then finally make the decision. The weapon didn’t just drop down out of the sky right into his hands and start firing itself.
Did I miss something by now clicking and reading the bottom of the article?
We have the saying that guns don’t kill people, people kill people. He even admits that with the next sentence after the one I excerpted about driving a truck into said crowd. But I would take it one step further and say that free will kills people. The only time a gun doesn’t kill out of free will is when it’s an accident, and such accidents should never happen. You don’t clean and inspect a loaded gun for example.
If this goof is some kind of California liberal loon, I wonder if they think that protestors at an abortion clinic are exercising free will. I suspect they would hesitate for a moment.
happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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How can the place and time be considered ‘wrong’?