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Quote: from The Last Magister at 10:09 pm on Oct. 6, 2009

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God does not act in the modern world because his gift to man was choice, if he were to act, we would be slaves.

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Yea. Stopping people from being born with peanut allergies would mark me as a shackled slave-boy.

We don't have any real "choice" anyway, so where's your argument now.

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The argument fails before it begins because in order to have absolute choice [such that, by interfering in ANYTHING we would lose our ability to "choose"] we would have to be gods ourselves. Since we are not, and because we must abide by countless rules and laws, he has already interfered enough so that we can only say:

We have as much choice as god see's fit.

If that is the case, fixing some of the bad shit would only make things better.

Anyway, like i said, humans are afflicted with only the illusion of free will. The concept of libertarian free will is ridiculous, thus any notion of "limiting our choices" is ridiculous. All he would be doing would be allowing us to make our "decisions" in a better world.

I do not mean that we don't make decision, btw, only that what decisions we make are not really ours, insofar as they are determined by myriad different factors. By changing one, you have not limited our choices, only directed them on another path.

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