2007-07-01 05:06:15 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Free will is not as free as it implies. We are conditioned by our environment and all thought as we know it was concocted by living people. The standard for living and even your question of free will is negated by the fact that we are here. The fact that we are born at all is motivated by external factors entirely out of our control. But even though we do not have will over these factors, what we do from day to day is determined by our choices: free will exists.
Asking why we're here or where we came from is similar to a man who is shot wanting to know who shot him before allowing others to give him medical attention. It doesn't really matter, everyone has room to improve the choices they make and realizing that is one of the steps on the path to nirvana.
2007-07-01 05:16:29 · answer #1 · answered by Surf Forever 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Considering we don't even understand the concept of free will is until much later in life . . . .
I think your question is making a logical jump. We don't choose everything. While we may choose to smoke, we don't also chose to get cancer. No matter what any rabid anti-smoker says. We may commit suicide, but even then, some don't succeed. So, we don't necessarily always get to chose when we die either. We may choose to drive, but unless we are seeking some kind of retribution or pain, we do not chose to get into a car accident.
We do make **some** choices in life, but sometimes, life happens to us.
2007-07-01 12:23:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
After you leave physical form, you'll find you did choose to be born. It'll make more sense then.
2007-07-01 12:11:07 · answer #3 · answered by American Spirit 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we can choose how to react to being born.
2007-07-01 12:10:55 · answer #4 · answered by Deof Movestofca 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You did choose to be born, you just don't remember it.
2007-07-01 12:11:59 · answer #5 · answered by NONAME 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How can we have free choice if we aren't born?
2007-07-01 12:09:16 · answer #6 · answered by Sally 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Maybe you just don't remember choosing to be born...
2007-07-01 12:10:19 · answer #7 · answered by pr0ph3t1cl1v1ty 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you get the free will after you're born
you can't have free will if you're not born
or as an embryo are you going to chose to become a stillborn?
2007-07-01 12:09:30 · answer #8 · answered by laurenhonish 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, we have free choice on our lives, and if u didn't want to be born, kill yourself I guess? ^^ I'm not shur how to answer that.
2007-07-01 12:09:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are also subject to others free will.
Your parents had free will when they decided/or accidentally conceived you.
2007-07-01 12:22:12 · answer #10 · answered by Me 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋