{"id":7817,"date":"2019-11-07T23:43:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T07:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=7817"},"modified":"2023-07-24T21:35:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T01:35:12","slug":"the-problem-with-free-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2019\/11\/the-problem-with-free-will\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem with free will"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Free will exists to an extent for the individual, but disappears in the group.&#8221; &#8212; Spider Robinson, <em>Off the Wall at Callahan&#8217;s<\/em> (Tor Books, 1994), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.efanzines.com\/BPlott\/Sporadic-54.pdf\">courtesy of<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given that Unitarian Universalists tend to be obsessed with free will: assuming this statement is true, it would explain a lot about the dissatisfaction many Unitarian Universalists have with Unitarian Universalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(For the record, my sense is that free will is a cultural artifact of Western Christianity, not a valid way of thinking about how human beings interact with the world.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Free will exists to an extent for the individual, but disappears in the group.&#8221; &#8212; Spider Robinson, Off the Wall at Callahan&#8217;s (Tor Books, 1994), courtesy of. Given that Unitarian Universalists tend to be obsessed with free will: assuming this statement is true, it would explain a lot about the dissatisfaction many Unitarian Universalists have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2019\/11\/the-problem-with-free-will\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The problem with free will&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[268],"class_list":["post-7817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-science-fiction-and-fantasy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7818,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7817\/revisions\/7818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}