Re:On the Moral Economy of Tech (2016)
by analyst74 on Friday December 22, 2017 @02:37PM
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People are not 100% deterministic, but evidences also show that expert con man and similarly persuasive people can trigger emotions and thoughts in others reliably.
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Re:On the Moral Economy of Tech (2016)
by bobthechef on Friday December 22, 2017 @02:57PM
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No contradiction between the two. Human beings have natures, habits, character, etc. That fact that, say, depriving people of food will tend to produce hunger does not contradict the idea that we have a measure of freedom in our choices. Of course, a simplistic, mechanistic view of the word will leave no space for anything but blind stuff bumping into other blind stuff, but that picture is wrong.