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Like, we'll probably find out that eating boogers actually makes you immune to select illnesses or something crazy like that.

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[โ€“] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Remember the reasons we have punishments? To discourage further misdeeds. Also, to restore justice by inflicting suffering on those who deserve it. Punishments would still be dished out for pragmatic reasons, but retributive punishment would be rendered entirely meaningless.

It would also shatter all sense of acomplishment an individual could have. All that would be left is maybe a perverse pride in knowing you where born "better" than others.

I don't think society would survive if it was a common knowledge.

[โ€“] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Like I said, how can you prove that free will exists now? We could very well already live in your scenario, and the world isn't ending because of a lack of free will (if it doesn't exist). I mean, it is ending, but not because of free will or the lack thereof.