please no opinions , facts please, studys , scientific facts i can even accept theoligy of eny kind just save the ego trip that gives you the religiose beleaf in a concept that i can not accept
as eny thing but a concept, you know like father christmas, or god.
2007-05-29 03:22:15 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
"Free choice" assumes an autonomy and independence of being which, logically, cannot exist. Each of us is the product of countless causes and conditions. These causes and conditions very much influence our view of the world, our concepts of right and wrong, our methods of decision-making. Our direct experience of phenomena also shapes our decision-making. In the example above, someone elects not to stab himself in the hand. But is that "free choice," or is it a choice conditioned by the pain of past experience?
Just as a journalist choose facts and opinion to include in his or her story based on personal biases, I submit that our choices, while perhaps free of government interference, are nonetheless conditioned by countless other sentient beings and our interactions with them over the course of this life and, perhaps, many previouse lives. So our choice may be "free," but it is not inherently free from the influence of other people, causes and conditions.
2007-05-29 06:31:51 · answer #1 · answered by buddhamonkeyboy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
free choice does not means for me that you can choose to beecome the president or become millionair
but you have the real choice to work within yourselve to discover your real nature wich is the most meaningful thing that can happen in life. All other circunstances are less important, some really relative.
Everry one can get inner knowledge, rich poer femal male child old animal (well need our help) and so on
the real step you have to choose is to look for it, and for that choise we are all alone with ourselves
we have already many examples on earth since thousands of years so it is just a matter to open the inner eyes
So the answer is YES we have the free choice to become free from suffering if we meet the secondary cause which is a teacher and a teaching to start with, then we are really free!
2007-05-29 10:40:22 · answer #2 · answered by dreaming 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends what kind of liberty or free choice you are re fearing to.
You have speech liberty, you just know said that you do not believe or want anybody to mencion God, and that is your right, the right to be heard, to speak, but as my right, i say that GOD IS IMPORTANT, and you can not stop me.
You also have the power to decide whatever you wish, people may or may not influence you, but in the end YOU are the one who makes the choices, and you life with the consequences. For example, smoke or don't smoke.
2007-05-29 10:45:22 · answer #3 · answered by dg153l 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in the u.s.?
i can go anywhere i want, travel from state to state without having to stop at checkpoint.
i can say just about anything i want except to threaten the president or any federal building with harm. although there are many that do and suffer no consequences.
i can make any decision about myself and my body..i.e. i can have an abortion, kill myself (although in some states its illegal, they never prosecute), have tattoos, piercings, refuse to take prescribed medications, take illegal ones
i can live as depraved as i want as long as i don't purposely injure or kill anyone else. i can undermine others, humiliate them, destroy other human beings souls just for the fun of it. or i can live a good and decent life, not perfect just good. doing good deeds for others, not being self centered and only thinking about myself. being a good example for others and in doing so being a good example to myself. i can choose to respect myself and others or not. but the thing is any choice i make will change others and the world for good or for bad. if i choose good then mostly good will come of it if i choose bad mostly bad will. its really a matter of whether or not you think your needs and wants as an individual are more important than the needs and wants of the world as a whole. will your choices leave behind a legacy of positive changes or negative, choices seem so simple and we most times only look at the moment when making them but they change the world.
2007-05-29 10:37:57 · answer #4 · answered by ?! 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
right now, I could choose to stab myself in the hand.. but I choose not to.. free choice right there baby! now one could argue that that decision was made for me by fate.. but that is entering a circular argument that has no merit.. I can reason out making a choice to stab or not to stab.. you can't reason out fate.
2007-05-29 10:56:44 · answer #5 · answered by pip 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guess you were forced to ask this question.
2007-05-29 11:28:28 · answer #6 · answered by sashali 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋