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And this is why my wife and child have to fight me and each other for their food every morning.
Your statement is disproved by the evident existence of love in all its forms. What an absurd idea.
My wife has no beliefs I consider repulsive. My children, speaking strictly, don't really have beliefs at all, beyond perhaps "I like this food" and "these people make me happy". My parents have no beliefs I consider repulsive. My siblings have some beliefs I think are wrong, but people being wrong is part of the human condition, and certainly not worth repulsion over. one person I know is teaching their child that sometimes lying is okay, and that's probably the closest I'm aware of to a "repulsive" belief. Certainly it's not worth killing over. There are ideas that I think are worth fighting, dying and killing over, so I know such ideas exist. I just don't know anyone who holds them.
Your statements continue to be absurd.
This clarifies the conversation significantly. Would I be correct in guessing that you do not believe in free will, and think that human behavior is, by necessary implication from the obvious truth of materialism, fundamentally deterministic?
I mean, I don't think there's any reason to believe that our thinking is deterministic, given that we can each observe ourselves exercising free will every moment of every day. To the extent that the most basic and obvious observation of all completely contradicts Materialism, so much the worse for Materialism.
In any case, if you think our brains are deterministic, than your argument above makes no sense at all. Love can't possibly be an unprincipled exception, because it doesn't exist; the desire you claim we all share to kill others, and the obvious lack of such a desire that I observe toward my family and friends would both necessarily be equally bound by the chain of cause and effect. Your entire argument here defeats itself.
More generally, this conversation has been the philosophical equivalent of seeing a car driving on the freeway at three AM, drifting erratically between lanes. Your statements have no coherence, only vehemence. My guess is that you are some form of troll, but in any case, you should put a bit more effort in.
I find claims of humans being anything but deterministic (above the level of quantum mechanics) frankly confusing myself, and I do hope you don't think I'm a troll.
Nowhere in the human body do we find anything that acts contrary to the laws of physics. Our inability to perfectly model it and thus predict future decisions is a failure of our measurement tools and computational resources, from a qualitative standpoint we're no different from a sorting algorithm where you can mechanistically predict with near perfect confidence that it'll pick the larger of two numbers.
And mere randomness, be it fundamental or because of errors in measurement doesn't give rise to free will, certainly not in the sense people use the term. A billiards table doesn't have free will just because we can't predict more than half a dozen bounces before chaos overwhelms us.
This proves far less than you'd like. Do you notice the blind spot in your vision or the input of your visual neurons appearing in staccato bursts interrupted by saccades which the rest of your visual cortex post-processes into a seamless, smooth video? So much the worse for neurology and optics, when it contradicts our fundamental lived experience.
Where exactly, from the jiggling of sub-atomic particles, which are well described by the Standard Model of physics, to the biological superstructures we're more familiar with exist, made of the same, does "free will" arise?
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