Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
Nonsense. We are doing our human thing from a position of awareness. We have knowledge of the consequences and morality of our actions. The mosquito does not.

People choose to be fundamentally awful. Corbyn chooses to support the IRA or whichever oppressive dictator takes his fancy on the day. Owen Jones chooses to be a repulsive little gimp and consciously tries to use his position to encourage turning this country into a socialist hellhole, even though he knows the effect this will have on his fellow citizens. peter chooses to support these monsters. sw chooses to spunk his wages on Guinness, beat his children and píss in his wife's wardrobe.

All conscious choices. All guilty.
Nah. Free will is an illusion. How can it be anything else, when not one cell in your body or your brain (i.e. everything that makes you who you are) was your choice? None of us are the true authors of our actions, in any meaningful sense.

Moral culpability has a deep purpose and without it we'd be fúcked. But it is inherently illogical.