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Moral Moments

I Sink, Therefore I’m Not

by Joel Marks

I do have revelations at the kitchen sink. I had one just a few minutes ago. Of the myriad thoughts racing through my head, one caught hold of my attention as I was washing a breakfast dish. The idea that struck me was that my washing of that dish was as ‘determined’ as determined could be. That is, in a very local sense of metaphysical determinism, I could sense the inevitability of the event’s occurring as a result of the current and immediately preceding circumstances.

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