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Old 03-10-2008, 09:12 PM
Paul C. Anagnostopoulos Paul C. Anagnostopoulos is offline
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........In both experiments we found that weakening free will beliefs reliably increased cheating.
Now that's darn funny!

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Or perhaps, as Sartre suggested, does it simply provide the ultimate excuse to behave as one likes? .......'
My determinism made me do it!

I guess we need free will as an ethical placebo, along with religion.

~~ Paul
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