alanbwt on Nostr: “If you argue that you have no freedom, you imply that you are compelled to argue ...
“If you argue that you have no freedom, you imply that you are compelled to argue in this way, and that thus your opinion is not a free and rational decision but a compulsive mechanism of no more significance than a nervous tic. All rational thought and action assume a relative freedom of will.”
— Alan Watts, Behold The Spirit
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