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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ela_eluwa120" data-source="post: 12318458" data-attributes="member: 193664">GOD:   Oh, that’s what’s bothering you! Why didn’t you say so in the  first place instead of all this peripheral talk about free will and  responsibility? Why didn’t you simply request me not to punish you for  any of your sins?MORTAL:   I think I am realistic enough to know that you would hardly grant such a request! GOD:    You don’t say! You have a realistic knowledge of what requests I will  grant, eh? Well, I’ll tell you what I’m going to do! I will grant you a  very, very special dispensation to sin as much as you like, and I will  give you my divine word of honour that I will never punish you for it in  the least. Agreed? MORTAL:   (in great terror)    No, no, don’t do that! GOD:   Why not? Don’t you trust my divine word?   MORTAL:   Of course I do! But don’t you see, I don’t want to sin! I have  an utter abhorrence of sinning, quite apart from any punishments it may  entail.GOD:   In that case, I’ll go one better. I’ll remove  your abhorrence of sinning. Here is a magic pill Just swallow it, and  you will lose all abhorrence of sinning. You will joyfully and merrily  sin away, you will have no regrets, no abhorrence and I still promise  you will never be punished by me, or by yourself, or by any source  whatever. You will be blissful for all eternity. So here is the pill!MORTAL:   No. no!GOD:   Are you not being irrational? I am removing your abhorrence for sin, which is your last obstacle.MORTAL:    I still won’t take it.GOD:    Why not?MORTAL:    I believe that the pill will indeed remove my future abhorrence for  sin, but my present abhorrence is enough to prevent me from being  willing to take it.  GOD:   I command that you take it!MORTAL:   I refuse!GOD:   What, you refuse of your own free will?MORTAL:   Yes!GOD:   So it seems that your free will comes in pretty handy, doesn’t it?MORTAL:   I don’t understand!GOD:    Are you not glad now that you have the free will to refuse such a  ghastly offer? How would you like it if I forced you to take this pill,  whether you wanted it or not?MORTAL:   No, no! Please don’t!GOD:     Of course I won’t; I’m just trying to illustrate a point. All right,  let me put it this way. Instead of forcing you to take the pill,  suppose I grant your original prayer of removing your free will – but  with the understanding that the moment you are no longer free, then you  will take the pill. </blockquote>

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