12-01-2011, 02:09 AM
ZackT Wrote:Free Will is just an idea, or an expression. I suppose it's technically true, we all have the free will to choose to do (or attempt to do) whatever we want, but practicality and consequences are what limit us.
I could choose to throw my laptop against the wall right now in an act of free will, but then I'd break it and be without it, so I don't really consider myself free to do that.
I'm free to run for President of the US once I'm 35 years old, but I don't have the money to run a campaign so I'm not really free to do that.
It's just...another form of hope that everyone's supposed to adopt as a true statement. We're all free to do what we want, but not really. Not unless you're ok with fucking yourself over somehow.
I believe what you are speaking of here is called 'existential angst' and differs from what I am talking about in the sense that I am asking if we are not in actually bilogic robots and isn't 'free will' just an illusion?
Thank you very much for posting after I was such a jerk last time you posted on a thread I started.