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From: jqb@netcom.com (Jim Balter)
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In article <3bvnp1$cum@mp.cs.niu.edu>, Neil Rickert <rickert@cs.niu.edu> wrote:
>There are others who believe the load that you are shovelling,
>because it allows them to deny that they have any control.  Armed
>with such a denial they can sue McDonald's for their own stupidity in
>holding hot coffee between their knees in a moving automobile.  But,
>in common with many other deniers of free will, they hold to only a
>half-baked version of their denial.  If they really denied free will,
>they would have to also deny that McDonald's had any control over the
>temperature of the coffee.

It seems more likely to me that they simply recognize that liability lawsuits
against large corporations are a good way to Get Rich Quick (tm).

But any port in a storm, eh, Neil?


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