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Originally Posted by HarryT
Pirates "criminalise" themselves. Nobody is forcing them to break the law; they make that choice knowingly and voluntarily. To try to shift the "blame" onto somebody else is ridiculous.
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Just listened to 'Beyond Belief' on BBC Radio 4 - an interesting discussion about scientific and religious views on free will:
04 August 2008
Free Will
The ability to make free choices has often been seen as one of the hallmarks of being human, but some scientific research suggests that our brains have already determined what we are going to do, before we reach any conscious decision.
What is freewill? And if we don’t have it, how does that affect our understanding of ourselves, God and the world?