Well that just does not make any sense.

I mean … the sense ain’t sensing.

Math ain’t mathing.

Smart ain’t smarting … at all.

Apparently, some science-y guy says … humans actually do not have free will.

Essentially, this mistaken genius says … we (the human we) are just biological organisms reacting to environmental stimuli.

Really … do tell.

Yes, and we (the human we) cannot be held morally responsible (no morals/morality, remember?) for our behavior because it (our behavior) is all predetermined and destined and fixed from jump, ergo/to wit … free will as a concept is a myth, and each decision made has already been made based on, well, everything that ever happened to that biological organism merely reacting to stimuli starting in the womb.

Right.

OK so when the (not-so) logical conclusion of this theory reaches its inevitable conclusion … which is, what, the pointlessness of everything, then what is the point of the hypothesis?  More importantly, what is the point of even sharing this hypothesis in the first place?

Some highly-educated, book-trained intellectuals really aren’t all that smart. 

Exhibit A:  Robert Sapolsky.

Mr. (Dr.?) Sapolsky, Stanford-claimed neurobiologist, has studied primates in Africa (don’t you dare) for decades and reached the conclusion that humans lack free will because — get this — neurochemical influences dictate every decision, and neurons merely react to uncontrollable external stimuli … ergo/to wit, humans are just meat puppets dancing with the wind.

Well that’s comforting.  Guess I won’t bother with the whole debt satisfaction thing after all … I was predetermined to make horrible financial decisions, so I can’t be held accountable.  I’ll just let the judge know when I get sued (again).

Mr. (Dr.?) Sapolsky likens humans to machines, albeit with emotions (which makes humans utterly unlike machines but wait/there’s more) and completely disregards the variable effect of external stimuli on similar organisms … one thing might be like the other but not react the same under identical circumstances.

What a lowlight.  To be such a smart guy, and to have dedicated so much of his life to abject foolishness, must make him feel pretty mid (thanks to theKid for that one.  And how is “rizz” in the dictionary?  Isn’t it just shorthand for “charisma”?  I am so very old/digress) and pointless in his every endeavor.

He was predestined to form a hypothesis and reach a conclusion and write a book about the fundamental meaninglessness of human life. 

Good job, sir.  Mom must be proud.  But he is entitled to a viewpoint.  Opinions and [butt]holes, as it t’were.

Guess “The Purge” should be a nightly event.  Why limit it to one night a year, when none of us are responsible for anything, anyway? 

Oh wait {Romans 2:15} 

GOD saw that one coming, too.  The debt of morality is written on every heart.