Clearly, a person should only be allowed free will to do a thing, so long as it harms no-one.
Trouble is, smokers light up & harm all those around them that breathe second hand smoke.
Women strip & destroy families.
In fact, almost all wrongs never just affect "you". Since it is the case, that all wrongs always affect others besides yourself (whether influence, environmental, or sexual),
Isn't it about time we strip people's rights away under martial law so they are made to do what is right regardless?
Seems everyone is abusing the free will they do have, right?
2007-03-15 02:22:10 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
The puritans tried that with antinomianism. Breaking laws or changing them in the name of God or morality. B.F. Skinner suggested that the elite set the rules and have the masses follow by using classical conditioning and positive reinforcement. My problem, someone has to set these rules. Are you part of that elite class? Are you entitled to free will and others not?
2007-03-15 02:36:32 · answer #1 · answered by chairette2001 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
And just who is to say what's "right to do". Countless dictators such as Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Ho Chi MInh, Pol Pot, and Saddam Hussein all did the same thing you suggested. Would you want to live in a society under one of them? I doubt it.
Maybe you would have liked to have been a wiccan living during the Salem Witch Trials or have been a Jew or Moor during The Spanish Inquisition. Why not? The people who orchestrated those two events thought it was the "right thing to do". Try being an Israeli peacefully shopping and then some Hamas suicide bomber blows up your family and friends. Why because he thought it was the "right thing to do"
Seems anything goes so long as one can say it was the "right thing to do".
2007-03-15 14:23:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If only we could find 3 people in the world who could agree on the Right Thing To Do.
Talk to a Priest. For him, abstinence is The Right Thing To Do. :-)
Free will is the spice of life or else we will all be ants or bees with no thoughts of our own. Including not being permitted to ask questions on Y!A
2007-03-15 10:17:36 · answer #3 · answered by jinoturistica 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hopefully it will after I am dead and gone. how does a stripper ruin a family? She isn't doing it in the town square right? Men have to go to a certain place where these acts are performed, they pay a cover charge to enter, then pay crazy prices for drinks while watching......Sounds like the free will that needs to be worried about is the free will of the patrons who ruin their families. The stripper just does what she does.......The man makes his own choices and ruins the family.
2007-03-15 10:36:14 · answer #4 · answered by dude0795 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK, so who decides what is right? You? What if my fundamenal beliefs are different from yours. What if you think it's right that women shouldn't think for themselves? Does that make it right? Right, unfortunately is not absolute. It can be subjective. It's wrong to murder. But in self-defense? Is it ok then? And when does it become self-defense. During an attack, or with the knowledge of a possilbe attack? See, it's not cut and dry. Good or Bad, Right and Wrong are not black and white. They are shades of gray...So who would get to choose for us?
2007-03-15 09:44:49 · answer #5 · answered by deadzed 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God gave us free will and sadly it will be around until He returns to separate the sheep from the goats. I absolutely agree with you on your point making here-we totally take our free will, amongst other things and people, for granted too often.
2007-03-15 09:33:17 · answer #6 · answered by tc381mc 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
never.
free will is a human characteristic given to man by God.
it is up to the individual to make his/her own decisions based upon conscience.
2007-03-15 09:34:07 · answer #7 · answered by slabsidebass 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i wait for the day
2007-03-15 09:25:51 · answer #8 · answered by sikhjohnpaul 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋