Free will 2: Free will Reloaded.?

Question

Can someone will themselves to do something they find undesireable without the pros outweighing the cons?

Could somebody freely will themselves to cut off their own leg so they can walk worse?

Unless of course you think walking worse is better for you. But then you're probably mentally ill and you're not freely willing yourself to think that.

Answer 1

No. Everyone is aiming at the good, even though their conceptions of it may be in error.

Answer 2

If mental illness violates free will because it is a neurological condition -- why does mental health imply free will? Mental health would still be a neurological condition.

Answer 3

"But then you're probably mentally ill and you're not freely willing yourself to think that."
--Exactly, but this applies to healthy brains as well. Nobody has free will. It's an illusion.

Answer 4

You understand free will wrong. Free will to choose God or not to. Why do you always wright and ask about the worst possible things do you sometimes some good thoughts?

Answer 5

MAN'S FREEDOM

1730 God created man a rational being, conferring on him the dignity of a person who can initiate and control his own actions. "God willed that man should be 'left in the hand of his own counsel,' so that he might of his own accord seek his Creator and freely attain his full and blessed perfection by cleaving to him."26


Man is rational and therefore like God; he is created with free will and is master over his acts.27
I. FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY

1731 Freedom is the power, rooted in reason and will, to act or not to act, to do this or that, and so to perform deliberate actions on one's own responsibility. By free will one shapes one's own life. Human freedom is a force for growth and maturity in truth and goodness; it attains its perfection when directed toward God, our beatitude.

1732 As long as freedom has not bound itself definitively to its ultimate good which is God, there is the possibility of choosing between good and evil, and thus of growing in perfection or of failing and sinning. This freedom characterizes properly human acts. It is the basis of praise or blame, merit or reproach.

1733 The more one does what is good, the freer one becomes. There is no true freedom except in the service of what is good and just. The choice to disobey and do evil is an abuse of freedom and leads to "the slavery of sin."28

1734 Freedom makes man responsible for his acts to the extent that they are voluntary. Progress in virtue, knowledge of the good, and ascesis enhance the mastery of the will over its acts.

1735 Imputability and responsibility for an action can be diminished or even nullified by ignorance, inadvertence, duress, fear, habit, inordinate attachments, and other psychological or social factors.

1736 Every act directly willed is imputable to its author:

Thus the Lord asked Eve after the sin in the garden: "What is this that you have done?"29 He asked Cain the same question.30 The prophet Nathan questioned David in the same way after he committed adultery with the wife of Uriah and had him murdered.31

An action can be indirectly voluntary when it results from negligence regarding something one should have known or done: for example, an accident arising from ignorance of traffic laws.

1737 An effect can be tolerated without being willed by its agent; for instance, a mother's exhaustion from tending her sick child. A bad effect is not imputable if it was not willed either as an end or as a means of an action, e.g., a death a person incurs in aiding someone in danger. For a bad effect to be imputable it must be foreseeable and the agent must have the possibility of avoiding it, as in the case of manslaughter caused by a drunken driver.

1738 Freedom is exercised in relationships between human beings. Every human person, created in the image of God, has the natural right to be recognized as a free and responsible being. All owe to each other this duty of respect. The right to the exercise of freedom, especially in moral and religious matters, is an inalienable requirement of the dignity of the human person. This right must be recognized and protected by civil authority within the limits of the common good and public order.32

Answer 6

Yes. We have free will which allows us to make any decision we so please.

Unfortunately, Satan sometimes takes over and our will becomes his. In that respect, he could convince us to mutilate our bodies or parts of it.

Answer 7

greed motivates, hows that for free will we all want something free to save us money

Answer 8

It all depends on what you will or will not.