Paul Conti
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right?
If we're healthy, there's nothing negative to say about our health, right?
If we have health problems, there's a lot to say, right?
And it's emotion that pushes us towards the goodness that I think makes all the meaning for us.
I mean, it's interesting.
I actually was wondering your thoughts about this as a scientist, right?
Because we accept it by and large that we have free will, right?
We think we have free will, but then we get upset that there's not justice,
But how is it like if we have free will, I could act in an unjust way and then you're surprised or vice versa?
Why?
We have these thoughts because I think because we're rooted.
We want logic to rule.
There's a way in which I can understand logic.
I can manage it.
I can manipulate it.
We sort of want it to be that way.
So then we glorify logic.
logic, and then we misapply it.
Like ideas like, oh, I know we have free will, but I'm now shaking my fist at the heavens because there's no justice, right?
And I think maybe what we're looking for is we should go back and look at the givens.