MixedNuts comments on By Which It May Be Judged - Less Wrong

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Comment author: BerryPick6 14 December 2012 02:43:43AM 2 points [-]

Standard reply is that free will outweighs everything else. You have to give people the option to be evil.

There is no reason an omnipotent God couldn't have created creatures with free will that still always choose to be good. See Mackie, 1955.

Comment author: MixedNuts 14 December 2012 02:50:32AM 1 point [-]

Yeah, or at least put the option to be evil somewhere other than right in the middle of the garden with a "Do not eat, or else!" sign on it for a species you created vulnerable to reverse psychology.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 14 December 2012 03:21:14AM 2 points [-]

My understanding is that the vulnerability to reverse psychology was one of the consequences of eating the fruit.

Comment author: MugaSofer 14 December 2012 12:07:50PM 1 point [-]

That's an interesting one. I hadn't heard that.

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