Um, whatever gives you the idea that putting asterisks around "some" is meant to nullify anything? I agree with you: even at gunpoint, or even at hell-point, it's possible to make a genuine choice. I can't speak for Paul but I'm guessing he'd agree: all he says is that the threat of hell "limits my ability to choose".
Are you trying to say that actually the threat of infinite harm, versus the offer of infinite benefit, *doesn't* constitute a limit to one's ability to choose the other way? Do you never say things like "I can't do that, it's against the law" or "I can't go that way, there's a 100-foot cliff and I might die" or "I can't do that, I'd lose my job" or whatever?
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Date: 2008-05-29 12:17 am (UTC)Are you trying to say that actually the threat of infinite harm, versus the offer of infinite benefit, *doesn't* constitute a limit to one's ability to choose the other way? Do you never say things like "I can't do that, it's against the law" or "I can't go that way, there's a 100-foot cliff and I might die" or "I can't do that, I'd lose my job" or whatever?