#human-dignity

#human-dignity

The conference's opposition to stripping folks of birthright citizenship "is motivated by their firmly held belief that each person is endowed by God with an inherent dignity that confers certain universal, inviolable, and inalienable rights."

First, I argued that libertarian free will-that is, the idea that the will can form itself in the mind independently of antecedent causes and conditions-is inconceivable. We can imagine to act differently, but we cannot show that we can. Second, the retreat to a higher-order will, imagined to freely act to create the effective will, merely kicks the can down the alley. Any meta-will begs for a yet higher-order will to be explained, and hence, we end up with an infinite regress of wills.

Shockley argued that people with IQs below 100 should be paid to undergo sterilization; a belief that reflects his severe misjudgment about human dignity and genetic worth.