People are completely and entirely free to do what they want.?

Question

Nothing can stand in the way of you achieving what you want
Agree?Disagree?Why?

Answer 1

We can do anything we want but be prepared to reap what we have sown.

Answer 2

Disagree! My family life was very dysfunctional. At age 13 I tried to join the Foreign Legion. Went all the way to the barracks in Marseille only to be told they didn't take girls.
I ended up back in my own country and tried eventually to join the forces to become a truck driver. I wasn't allowed since i was a girl! Drivers are considered front line troops and have to carry weapons i was told. Women are not allowed to do front line duty or carry weapons.
So even though I was entirely free to do what I wanted (the Foreign Legion would have taken me had i been a boy, same for the army, they offered me medics or administrativeinstead), the system stood in my way :-(

Answer 3

This can only possibly true for one entity in any universe. Since you refer to 'people' as a plural, then your statments can only be false.

Consider, if there are two individuals and one of them is more powerful than the other, then the weak individual's freedom is limited by what the powerful one permits him. If you follow this trend out, then only a single omnipotent entity can do ANYTHING it wants and have NOTHING stand in its way.

If you doubt this, I challenge you to find any human who can objectively fly through the air in Earth's gravity field without outside support. Even other people who answered 'yes' to this question had to hedge their bets, if you look: they'll say, you can do things but you have to face the consequences. Does that mean we're not free to do things without consequences? Obviously.

Reality has limits. The only way to escape those limits is to escape from reality altogether. But I don't suppose complete psychopathic insanity was what you had in mind...

Answer 4

I believe this is true, but also living in a society that has so many hang ups makes it hard. Doesn't matter if it's race,gender,religion, or articulation. We are responsible, for pushing through negative images and people. I feel that ones greatest enemy is ones self. All the other stuff, becomes irrelevant. Most of the time, people hate others or are jealous and will do anything to take that positive situation, and make it neg.

Answer 5

agree with 1st statement, disagree with the 2nd statement.

You can do anything you want in the sense that you can engage in any activity u choose, basketball, politics, etc.... As for "acheiving" such as being in the NBA or president of the USA or something like that, there are tons of barriers that may prevent even the strongest willed person from making it if they don't have certain physical/mental attributes.

Answer 6

LOL...even less in America! You can't have a view on anything that the government disagrees with! The CIA will visit you!!!

Answer 7

Yes! Nothing whatsoever stands in the way. People are the only ones limiting themselves. Often, a man's worst enemy is himself.

If you already did your best and you still find yourself stuck in the same situations, use your creativity and resourcefulness. There is always a way out far more than you can imagine.

Only control-freak institutions tell you that you are not free to do whatever you want. Often, they are only after or guarding their own interests. If they don't want to set you free, talk to them. Maybe your being free will harm them but that's the use of compromises. But still you always have a choice in everything and they too have a choice in everything. And choices result to consequences. Be careful in your choices then but still strive to live free, not just from the outside world but also from your own demons. You are responsible for your own life.

Even God has no preferences that's why He gave man freewill. To what He is not, to being undefined, God always returns. Man only prefers to limit God by assuming what God wants and what God approves of. It is only an attempt to define Him and from how man's been defining Him so far, God appears to be more like "the devil", the man himself trying to define Him, or the controlling institutions.

Haven't you ever wondered how the rules to restrict the freedom of people so as to create order are supposed to be perfect, but still they can be broken? Many even opt to not follow the rules and bend them by a little of this and a little of that. Sometimes, even in our own rules, there are exceptions. If you will follow through all the way to the topmost governing person in any institution, you will find that he is not at all an "angel" and has always been comfortable with lies and hypocrisy. In his belief, his own laws does not apply to him.

If you believe your reality as to having limits, there's no way you can be free however you try. You already chose in the first place to limit your own mind. You are only free as to how much you allow yourself to be. And if you say that to set yourself free is like allowing yourself to act like an animal, you are belittling and judging yourself, as well as the animal kingdom. Yes, you are capable of doing ultimate evil, but you are also capable of the highest good. To choose evil or good is what your freewill is for. You always have a choice.

Responsible people know there is freewill and they exercise it carefully. Irresponsible people choose to believe outside forces are limiting them and, in their reality, become victims of circumstances.

Answer 8

people are bound by the consequences of there actions and their own moral standards they are the only limiting factors in what you can achieve without either all things become possible and true freedom is achieved.
however true freedom is achievable only by the truly mad or the divine

Answer 9

Some people have physical. mental and emotional barriers that stand in the way of achievement.

Answer 10

Well, technically you can, but due to the technicalities in the system, you will have a hard time, its not as easy as it seems. But anybody can do anything in the system if their drive for achieving that goal is strong enough.

Answer 11

False:

If people were absolutely free, as you are describing, then these same people wouldn't be free not to be free since all they could be was free. Hence, they wouldn't not be completely free. The notion of complete freedom or absolute freedom is self-defeating.