lazer-guided commentaries

Let us take as true that choice ⇒ action ∧ action ⇒ consequences. If you choose to act, then you will act; and if you act, the consequences of that action will ensue.

From this it follows that choice ⇒ consequences. If you choose to act, consequences of that action will ensue.

Alternatively, taking contrapositives, ¬consequences ⇒ ¬action ∧ ¬action ⇒ ¬choice and thus ¬consequences ⇒ ¬choice. If the consequences of a choosable action aren’t manifest, then you must not have chosen to take that action. (Let’s ignore failed actions. This is, after all, flimsy moral logic.)

However, not provable from our starting point is consequences ⇒ choice. That is, we cannot show from observing consequences of some choosable action that a choice was made to take that action.

Despite this, an awful number of people seem to think if you’re suffering some kind of unpleasant situation, it must be because you’ve chosen some action that leads to it.