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To: Albion Wilde

Why would you applaud the muscle memory that enables athletes to do amazing things and not see the implications of that same “memory” when triggered by an incident in a dark theater?


82 posted on 07/13/2014 12:29:25 PM PDT by meatloaf
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To: meatloaf
Why would you applaud the muscle memory that enables athletes to do amazing things and not see the implications of that same “memory” when triggered by an incident in a dark theater?

Because we have these handy little override functions called "free will" and "conscience" that keep people from being robots at the mercy of their conditioning. It's part of living in a free society and deserving that freedom.

104 posted on 07/13/2014 12:52:40 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("The commenters are plenty but the thinkers are few." -- Walid Shoebat)
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