[MD] Choosing Chance

craigerb at comcast.net craigerb at comcast.net
Fri Jan 22 20:58:25 PST 2010







[Craig, previously] 
> I have provided an argument for my position...You have 
> just  asserted without any proof of its relevance. 

[Arlo] 
> Its relevance is that it must be so. 


Owww.  The old "it must be so argument".  The 2nd most irrefutable argument, 
next to "you can't have a Red Ryder BB gun because you'll put your eye out!" 


[Arlo] 
> And so long as you COULD choose that, there must 
> exist some probability you will, even if its infinitely tiny. 



"Infinitely tiny"?  Like once in a trillion years (which is way 
more often than infinitely tiny)?  Or maybe just once in 200 years? 
Even then it would never be relevant in the lifetime of any human. 
Not a good basis for a theory of free choice. 
In short, If I say "I could choose broccoli ice cream if I wanted to", 

I'm not guaranteeing I would ever want to. 
Craig 


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