Stephen Fry: Suffering, Capitalism & What it Means to be Human
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The Nature of Creating a Moral Framework of Behavior
In philosophy, the problem of free will determinism versus volunteerism has resulted with a kind of truce amongst philosophers where they talk about compatibleism. The idea is that things being determined by cause and effect but we're still responsible for them. And I heard in McEwan, the novelist put it rather well, he said, I am not my car. It has its own engine that I can sort of manage to control. But if I step out of it for a second and I haven't put the handbrake on and it's rolling downhill to kill some children, it's the car that's doing it. So unless we accept that there is responsibility for even something that may be
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