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Accepting free will doesn’t exist could make us less hateful and ashamed (theconversation.com)
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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah I was taught about "free will" as part of my religious upbringing. It's essential to the ideology of blame, guilt, etc. It's absolutely amazing how many people accept this pseudo-science without question. It's very very clear why hegemony wants to instill this ideology. It's fundamental to violent control. People deserve to be controlled because they abuse their "free will".

Let's see how many downvotes this post gets without any response. That's the power of mythology. lol.