From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!upstill
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: Rationality and Justice in a Deterministic Universe
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8227
Posted: Sat Aug  7 09:57:25 1982
Received: Sun Aug  8 00:24:34 1982

Anyone care to comment on Herman Kahn's summary of the situation?  That
is, "Even if you have a deterministic universe, you get a better breed
of people if you treat them as if they had free will."  Machiavellian
overtones aside, what he's saying, and what this just discussion is 
trying to come to grips with, is the fact that the RECOGNITION of 
determinism has profound socio-behavioral implications.

Steve