Harry Potter and The Boys From Brazil (long).

[eggplant107]

No: HPFGUIDX 170420

"Neri" <nkafkafi at ...> 

I really enjoyed your post, I think you made some excellent points!
I've read "Boys From Brazil" but I confess I never noticed a parallel
between it and Harry Potter, not until I read your post. Thanks,
excellent job!

Fortunately I did find one thing to disagree with. I say fortunately
because if we agreed on everything things would get a bit dull. You said:
  
> The opposite of the concept of
> Free Will is Determinism: 

Your mention of "free will" sort of pushed my buttons, because I
believe there is no idea in philosophy or criminal law stupider than
the idea of free will; it's a classic example of an idea so bad it's
not even wrong.  Determinism says every event has a cause, but free
will says the reason I don't take an ax and chop your head off with it
is that the very idea of it fills me with horror; but that horror is
the reason, the CAUSE, I don't chop your head off.

The opposite of free will is gibberish, just as the opposite of
gibberish is more gibberish. I'm not saying determinism must be
correct, perhaps some events have no cause, but I am saying the
concept of free will must improve itself enormously before in can be
elevated into the exalted category of being incorrect; right now it is
just gibberish.  

 Eggplant