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To: spirited irish

Indeed. But the point that he molecules don’t get to choose remains. The exercise of morality is always to choose beteen good and evil. The molecules cannot choose, so I cannot reconcile attributing morality to what they do.


132 posted on 09/13/2013 1:11:35 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic

“.. I cannot reconcile attributing morality to what they do.”

Spirited: As our souls are completely embedded within our material bodies, our “choices” are very often influenced by passions, appetites and senses. So it is not true that matter (molecules) plays no part when a man overwhelmed by hate or perhaps envy chooses to harm the object of his violent emotions.


150 posted on 09/13/2013 2:56:46 PM PDT by spirited irish
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