Jerry Coyne: "Reason Is No Different from a Kick"

Atheist free will denier Jerry Coyne has a bizarre take on justice. He believes that there is no free will, and therefore that there is no moral culpability. Thus, he believes that no one is ever guilty or innocent of wrongdoing. We are, in his view, meat robots controlled by our genes and our environment.

Despite Coyne's denial of justice as a meaningful principle, he believes in social engineering to accomplish goals he deems desirable. But he sees no fundamental difference between the us...