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Is This Bird Alive or Dead?”
A little girl wants to challenge her teacher.
She caught a bird, placed it in one hand, and went to see her teacher.
“Teacher, is this bird alive or dead?”
“My dear student, the answer lies in your hands.”
Interview
Questions:
• What is Freedom?
• How do you exercise freedom
outside your line of duty?
• How were you disciplined as a child?
• How do you see yourself
ten more years from now?
• What is the opposite of freedom?
Matt Timothy Dizon RN
Technical Writer Jim Lemuel Ventanilla
AnonFilibustero
What can one do with Freedom?
Adam Lanza
December 2012
20 years old
„dark and disturbed‟
„tortured mind‟
Asperger‟s Syndrome
Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
Killed 20 five – eight years old kids
Killed 6 adults …including his mother
…took a handgun and shot himself.
Thomas Lane III
February 2012
17 years old
Chardon High School Shooting
Killed 3 known friends
Injured many
* Escaped prison September 2014 (recaptured)
* Sentenced 3 life sentences plus 37
years with no chance of parole
"The hand that pulls the trigger that killed your sons now
masturbates to the memory…"
Columbine Massacre
Cassie Bernall
April 1999
Valeen Schnurr
Do you believe in God?
-Yes.
(Shot to death.)
-Yes.
Gunman: Why?
-I was raised to do so.
(Left unharmed)
Do we really have Freedom?
Pete Moore on
Human Freedom
• Uniforms + Style
• Extreme Examples (9 chapters)
• Genetics and Neuroscience
“…Maybe it is not possible
to formulate the theory of the universe
in a finite number of statements.”
-S. Hawking
Man‟s Quest for Freedom
Rainier Ibana
What is Freedom?
• Hard Determinists
Physiological
• Soft Determinists
Psychological
Immanuel Kant
“Man MAY refuse.”
Freedom is attributed to man.
Libertarians
(Campbell and Broad)
There is Freedom before Determinism.
RESPONSIBILITY = Reward or...