[Buddha-l] Five moral objections to karma

[Hal Cooper]

> freedom; at least, we haven't denied any freedom that is recognizably
> human.  A notion of freedom that can incorporate such complexities
> seems to me much more useful -- and philosophically interesting --
> than a notion of freedom that finds them threatening.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> R. Nance

Hal> Freedom is a hot topic in the USA these days. The Neo-cons seek to
reduce freedom to a simple, straight forward concept that any hill-billy in
a pickup truck can understand and agree with; however, many intellectuals
see that freedom is a complex issue.

BF Skinner made a proposition that people act in response to various kinds
of conditioning.  People just exist within the illusion of freedom; however,
Noam Chomsky refutes Skinners' supposition because the experiment is too
controlled and doesn't reflect the complex interactions of the human
condition.

http://cogprints.org/1148/00/chomsky.htm

This is a good article that faithfully describes Skinners' proposition and
goes on to scrutinize the published results.