tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post9150054657683114259..comments2024-03-28T19:56:42.305-05:00Comments on Alexander Pruss's Blog: How a blog radically changes the world foreverAlexander R Prusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-65604709977761607092016-10-14T11:40:18.876-05:002016-10-14T11:40:18.876-05:00Excellent post!! I mentioned something similar wit...Excellent post!! I mentioned something similar with respect to Sir Winston Churchill's conception in my first paper on the consequential complexity of history and the evidential problem of evil. http://p2c.com/sites/default/files/documents/blogs/kirk/complexity-and-evil.pdf You have done a more detailed job of expanding upon that idea.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00286138236210323687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-29599867274706247422016-09-15T23:15:30.297-05:002016-09-15T23:15:30.297-05:00Interesting! But God could ensure that the same sp...Interesting! But God could ensure that the same sperm and egg meet up even at the different time. Alexander R Prusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-50037928736095684542016-09-15T10:02:35.174-05:002016-09-15T10:02:35.174-05:00Isn't there an implicit theodicy lurking in th...Isn't there an implicit theodicy lurking in this post? Atheists commonly allege that it's easy to imagine a better world than the actual world. In a sense that's true. We can imagine various local improvements. However, changing one variable has a snowball effect. It may make things better in some respects, but worse in other respects. <br /><br />To use your illustration, small "improvements" will change the timing of conception. As a result, some people will now be born who would not otherwise be born. That might be good for them, but bad for the people whose existence they replace. <br /><br />Moreover, some people do very bad things. Or some people do good things, but they have a very bad grandchild. So you always have these tradeoffs when comparing alternate timelines.stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16547070544928321788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-79990153052082122922016-09-13T16:28:14.519-05:002016-09-13T16:28:14.519-05:00No. Very helpful. Embarrassing not having read it....No. Very helpful. Embarrassing not having read it. Thanks!<br /><br />I think Lenman doesn't sufficiently feel the force of the worry that there are actions where consequences are pretty much all that matters. When deciding which famine relief organization to give money to, assuming none of them acts morally, consequences are pretty much all that matters. Alexander R Prusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-11624130132276799612016-09-13T15:52:12.484-05:002016-09-13T15:52:12.484-05:00Probably you have read James Lenman, "Consequ...Probably you have read James Lenman, "Consequentialism and Cluelessness."Heath Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13535886546816778688noreply@blogger.com