[Layke1123]

Because I'm confident the brain is physical, and just like chemicals (alcohol, opoids) and viruses or bacteria (toxoplasmosis) can already brain behavior, so can a person alter than brain through similar methods. It only comes down to knowing how the brain forms new thoughts and making it incapable of exhibiting murderous thoughts.

And I say historical evidence does not lend you credence, but actually the opposite. Nazi Germany believed in capitalism and the doctrine of free will. The is considered the worst of the worst, and that is your society and historical fact you choose to ignore a m ought the rest of atrocities the western philosophy of that has inflicted through war. Or are you trying to tell me every war the US has been involved with was necessary to protect lives and promote less horrendous death and suffering?

If I can't convince you that murder is wrong, I will do my best to force you out of civilized society. I will not tolerate it in my sphere of influence just as you would not either. I simply take it not just in the external sense but the internal sense as well. If you think about murdering someone, I would ask why and if you are at fault for said thoughts and couldn't not provide an answer that justified your position, I would "cancel" you and your contributions to our society. We don't need murderers or violent offenders, whether its internal or external.

As for your inability to conceive of an idea of a real possibility, that's a lack of imagination on your part. I can clearly consider it a possibility but even more so an eventuality. Your world view is limited, not mine.

[pdonis]

> I'm confident the brain is physical

So am I. I have already said so multiple times. Continuing to talk as though you are somehow refuting my viewpoint by saying this is ridiculous.

> Nazi Germany believed in capitalism and the doctrine of free will.

No, it didn't. It forcibly sent millions of people to concentration camps. It had the government take over management of all production. It subjected an entire country to the whims of a small group of people in power.

> Or are you trying to tell me every war the US has been involved with was necessary to protect lives and promote less horrendous death and suffering?

Certainly not. I have made no such claim. And I am tired of you continuing to respond to claims I have never made.

At this point I think our discussion has run its course.

[Layke1123]

If the brain is physical, and you think it doesn't entirely determines your actions, then we disagree on the point it makes to say the brain is physical, as a lot of people reading this think there is something extraphysical about what our brains do.

As for Nazi Germany, all those Germans chose to either resist or go along with putting millions of people into concentration camps because they were enemies of their goals. That was there choice to see others as inferior to them. They still believed Jews had free will, and they most certainly all Christians, which it's fundamental tenants are about free will. You choose to accept Jesus as your saviour. Also, I'm pretty sure their industries were privately owned, ala capitalism. Or are you trying to redefine what terms mean again?

Oh, so it's only OK to talk about the death and destruction left in the wake of other countries you paint as the bad guy, but anyone mentions the atrocities committed by systems you taut as superior rubs you the wrong way? Do you even begin to understand how brainwashed you are? You can't even contemplate the evils your world views have perpetuated on societies as you pretend to claim the moral high ground.