Re: Capability allegories

On 3 February 2016 at 08:36, Matt Rice <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yeah, it is a bit of a stretch, I should probably said its a well
> known story that can be framed in capability terms.
>
> A few points, that the order of the story matters...
>
> god makes adam,
> Revokes authority to the tree of knowledge of good and evil,
> only then he knocks Adam out, and creates Eve from Adam's rib..
> Then Eve gets tricked into taking the fruit, and sharing it with Adam.

How do you figure that God revoked Adam's access to the tree before he
ate from it?  After all, it was Adam who was given the command, not
Eve.  It'd be a bit pointless to give someone a command that they
couldn't violate.

But the real reason this analogy falls flat for me is that all the
actors here knew what they were doing.  Not only does the punishment
not make sense if Adam didn't know what he was eating, but the guilty
excuse he makes, throwing his wife under the bus when he should have
taken responsibility, shows that he was complicit in that rebellion.

-- 
William Leslie

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