+ Why do people use the illusion of freewill to ignore all extenuating circumstances?

Question

Freewill and the religious right are both illusions that serve man's ego.

I didn't say religion. I said religious right i.e. "I worship the true God so I am better than you."

Answer 1

How does religion serve man's ego? It says that man is not the greatest thing out there, and that a higher power exists that, if it wanted to, kill everything? Your statement makes no sense, and is created solely to make a snide remark about religion.

Answer 2

I don't understand...how is freewill an illusion? Are we not responsible for our own lives? Are we the pawns of some higher power? If so then why do you suggest religion is an illusion as well? I'm curious what exactly you do believe in? What extenuating circumstances are you referring to...? I'm sure there's a story behind this but you haven't provided us with it, so I'm in the dark...

Answer 3

I think I get it, if we can't have free will(technically) because you always have someone telling you what to do and if you don't say, believe in a certian religion or if you have an idea that is "weird" than you are shunned or stopped from executing the latter. So in other words we can ever be "free".
Now as for extenuating circumstances, I am not so sure. Do you mean like if they, for example only, streak and are taken to court they pleed they are "free" or something about religion.

Answer 4

You are right. Most of the time people say they have freewill, and it is from God, when actually most peoples freewill is tied up in laws!

The religious right, for instance, wants to take people's free will from them by making a law, which isn't by any stretch of the imagination, God's, to stop people from the CHOICE of aborting or not aborting a fetus! God does not talk on the subject of abortion, and many others, and even if he did, it would be between him and the person chosing to have one, not anyone else!

By forcing people to have children, many whom are children themselves, takes away most of a person's rights by having the child because it places them in an area in society where they will have their livelihood, if they ever have any, severly limited, on a choice that was made or limited by someone else!

Those on the right, after a child is born, want to wash their hands by exercising their right not to support the child which they want to make a person have by government interference, not God's!

Freewill on the most part is an illusion as it is severly limited based on law and circumstance! I do agree the religious right use their pulpit for stroking there ego by thinking they, by violating God's own law of freewill, are taking away someone elses on their own egotistical beliefs! They are far worse than those they would have condemned to a life of misery and of little hope, for them or their child!

They use freewill in extenuating circumstances because they don't know the meaning of freewill and pick and choose what freewill of theirs they want to lay on others! It wasn't long ago that it was perfectly legal to kill children who were alive! It was perfectly legal to work a 12 year-old 12 hours a day in a sweat shop so the rich could make money off a childs back! Where were they then?

Using God as the rationaliztion for passing laws which limit the right of freewill of others for their own sake is one of the seven deadly sins! And they are not God and do not speak for him!

Answer 5

If the international were trully deterministic, then it should be accessible to foretell the destiny with very particular accuracy, only because it truly is accessible to foretell the elements. i ought to apply concepts to examine once you'll die, the way you'll die, and what number toddlers you get. If free will isn't actual, then possibly psychics, horoscopes, and astrology are. yet i do not ignore that each and every thing I reported is crap. i will not inform you the position you'll finally end up in 5 minutes from now, a lot less in 50 years from now.

Answer 6

That's the function of free will. It's useful to have, because the rich are praised and the poor blamed by it. To extend responsibility into the environment then calls into question the structures of social reality. Which challenges our lauded 'liberalism' as such, in challenging the 'freedom' of a system which has all sorts of statistically determined malignancies.

The concept of justice is part of the illusion.
The question is whether the illusion is useful for us any more.

Answer 7

The question is, why do you think free will and religious right are an illusion?

We have the right to choose. To choose what we want to believe, and to choose what we say, when we say it, and to who.

If we didn't have free will, there'd be no point to even being alive.

Answer 8

Ego mostly. Nobody wants to believe he's wrong.