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Originally Posted by peacegirl
It's true that anything we choose will be in the direction of greater satisfaction, but this is not how he came to his first premise, which is what you're assuming. It is much more than we choose what we choose. I also said that you cannot observe "greater satisfaction" directly but this does not make his observation any less astute or accurate. Lastly, he did not say that we can predict behavior through this observation. It is the gateway that leads to his discovery which indirectly proves that man's will is not free because we can only move in one direction which is not to hurt others with a first blow. If will was free we could hurt others under any condition, which is impossible when every bit of justification is removed.
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Peacegirl, if you had made this statment at the beginning of this thread people could have gotten into a discussion of the real points of Lessans theories instead of wandering around on topics that were peripheral to the main subject. Refusing to give a synopsis, and insisting that people read the whole book just opened the discussion to whatever people found in the book that struck their fancy. You could have directed and lead the discussion in the direction that you felt was important, but instead you allowed others to direct the dialogue into areas that had little bearing on the main points. By pointing out the salient ideas people could have read with a purpose of finding the explinations of those ideas and you could have pointed the way, rather than allowing others to lead the discussion. Several times on this thread you have asked others to do it your way, but you have never given clear direction how to procede, in fact many times you have refused to procede just because people would not accept your claims.