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Originally Posted by Mantus
As we become teenagers and then adults our decisions and the thoughts behind them are the results of our fate. One is not free to make any choice one wants because our choices are limited by our knowledge and our knowledge is determined by our experience, which is in turn determined by our environment.
The concept of free will does not apply to our world.
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snippy snippy to get to the meat of this one.
ignorance does not refute free will. we do not know if there is a god or not. we have no proof. some people, however, choose to believe while some do not. if an amazonian tribesman decides to use the rocks to start the fire, he did not choose to not use matches. there was no choice. there was no choice to not know about matches. to him, there were no matches. he chose between the rock and the bow and stick method. he didn't have a bow and stick so he chose the rocks. he could've chosen bow and stick, thogh he had none and would have had to walk home for a week to get them, but he did not. such is free will.
we can choose to do anything that is not something present in our own minds initially. if we choose to sprout wings and fly, it is a choice that one can make. it will never happen, but it is a choice that one can make nonetheless. choices made via (radical) free will do not have to be anywhere near rational or possible in the current state of the world/universe/etc. choice, however, will always exist.