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Thursday, May 20th, 2021 03:56 pm

Let's use redlining as our example.

  • A free will libertarian will say that people who create and enforce systems that reserve valuable real estate for white people and lock black people out are, using their freedom to act independently of outside determination, acting in a way that does harm and is bad, are blameworthy for doing so, and should stop or be stopped.
  • A compatibilist will say that such people are, uncoerced by outside forces, acting in a way that does harm and is bad, are blameworthy for doing so, and should stop or be stopped.
  • A hard determinist will say that such people are, as was inevitable given the laws of physics and the shape of the universe, acting in a way that does harm and is bad, and despite not being blameworthy for doing so, should stop or be stopped.
  • A hard incompatibilist will say that such people are, through chance or determination, acting in a way that does harm and is bad, and despite not being blameworthy for doing so, should stop or be stopped.

Hopefully this is illustrative.

(Footnote 2021-05-20: I have no idea how long this has been in our drafts on Dreamwidth but we don't have a lot of spoons to write anything today, so we're glad for whoever typed this up so we don't have to type anything today.)