Raoul Martinez

This is so misguided it's almost sad. But for quoting Dennett out of context you deserve a swift kick in the gonads. Another one for cherry picked examples and treating correlation as proof of causation.

It's like reading a stoner who just had this amazing epiphany that "dude, everything is made out of energy, like woah". And following along the same lines: "man, in this wholly deterministic (or not) world, none of us is responsible for anything, it's just atoms bouncing around, man, it's not us". Yes, this is as it may be but you see, the trick is to behave "as if we were responsible". Like we live our lives "as if we were immortal". It's for practical purposes. It's an abstraction. You can debate how useful it is or what form punishment should take but stop saying we are not responsible for our actions - it's a meaningless statement.… (plus d'informations)