How is it that you respond to stimuli? Are you certain it is in a fashion that is truly free?
How and why are you so convinced?
2006-12-05 12:01:02 · 7 answers · asked by jonas_tripps_79 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
From the time of Adam man has had free will. It is the reason God gave it to us is so we could survive. It is also a lesson for us as a species to know when we make the wrong choices. If we did not have free well we would be no better then an animal that lives from instinct. We would be worse, Rob tons. That is not what God intended.
2006-12-05 12:07:30 · answer #1 · answered by Michael JENKINS 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An animal has free will. An animal does whatever it wants to do. Only an owner, a hunter, another animal could prevent an animal from taking any sort of action it desires to take. If mankind if born of free will mankind would be like an animal unfettered by social consequences. Yet we all know mankind is restricted by society mainly by laws and by others. So to answer your question, no I don't believe mankind was born of free will, but as a spiritual being given the choice of free will as an option for existence.
2006-12-05 20:25:24 · answer #2 · answered by mac 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything is truly free. We are governed by emotions that are subject to everything from minute stimuli to childhood experiences. Other than some very basic commonalities which origin in education, culture and good old government/commercial brain-washing, we all essentially have free will.
To some it's more potent than others - some have stronger will, others have greater faith in their own abilities... but we are all free from day 1.
I'm convinced because after I've traveled the world in myriad countries and my love for people and culture brought me to observe different people in different situations and compare them with previous experiences - I realized, among other things, all that I've written.
2006-12-05 20:10:23 · answer #3 · answered by DNA-Groove 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man is born of free will.
Case in point -- those few people that have proved first hand how terrible they can act to others, in there disregard for human life
Try to tell me you dont have free will when you can go out hunt down and kill little kids at your leisure.
If we didnt have free will then certain people wouldnt be allowed to do that.
Now, punishments and perception of punishments is entirely different arguement altogether.
Free will brings about it responsiblity for ones actions.
As children grow up, a belief system is developed. Be it a system that promotes harmony with others, or one that lacks any system altogether-- a system is developed or under developed.
as a person grows, their system grows with them, and you will either have a person that has shaped into a mature responsible person understanding that their actions have onsequences, or you will have a person who grows up feeling tey can do watever they want to whomever they want.
But free will is given at birth.
How parents' own belief sstem was developed on parenting dictates how they will develop their own children's system.
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2006-12-06 11:24:26 · answer #4 · answered by writersbIock2006 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free will is not possible if we believe in a deterministic universe - how can choices be made for no reason at all?. But, free will could exist by quantum mechanics but even then we are bound by the choices we have ( as in we can't make a choice that doesnt exist ). So either way, the choices we make are limited by our enviroment and our knowledge of things..
2006-12-05 21:00:51 · answer #5 · answered by someguy_233 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If one of your nerves are stimulated, be it with warmth, cold, pain, etc, a message is sent to your brain. The brain is alike to a computer that can learn, it knows when something is bad. If something is bad, it wants it to stop and so on and so forth. Ultimately, we are withheld by our human instincts, live, reproduce, give the offspring the best chance posssible. It could only be our race which has glorified that to a colossal system of economies, religions, countries, etc. But I digress, everything you experience is a chemical reaction, you are ultimately a chemical reaction, your thoughts and emotions are chemical reactions. You are a drone to your human instincts, imprinted upon us from the ages of evolution.
2006-12-05 20:49:42 · answer #6 · answered by Mercenary Poet 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question pre-supposes that freewill exists. Since it doesn't, the answer is speculative.
2006-12-05 20:03:59 · answer #7 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋