in another Q here: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AhohrAvFXus_4LUNLTL5mhs8.Bd.;_ylv=3?qid=20071123224255AAElk25 someone answered "Free will doesn't require that all choices be pleasant". Does this mean that confessions obtained by torture are credible, as there still was free will?
2007-11-24 01:34:04 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
t90fan: ok, consider it, "confessions made under threat of torture". The question still stands.
2007-11-24 01:42:24 · update #1
Proverbs twenty7 7teen: don't talk to me about having to pull the plug on a loved one unless you have had to do so, because I have!
2007-11-24 01:47:02 · update #2
Nope. What it means is that when you have free will, sometimes you will chose things that are unpleasant becasue of your ideals or your moral code.
Torture is a process of destroying the free will of a person by the use of physical, psycological, or emotional abuse. Thus any results from torture will negate a person of his/her freewill.
2007-11-24 01:41:17 · answer #1 · answered by Makotto 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Self torture is different than someone else torturing you. Such as in someone having to pull the plug on a loved one. Or on the woman making the decision for an abortion. She would be tortured by her own thoughts, though she won't begin to know the real torture until AFTER she makes that decision. And let's throw in the torture of the baby who will NEVER know free will.
ADD:
You're the one who brought up the question. That you don't like the answer is of no concern to me. Though I am sorry you had to do it, you did make my point.
2007-11-24 09:41:08 · answer #2 · answered by Proverbs twenty7 7teen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the term free will does not apply to all the choices we make. It only applies to our choice to love God and choose his will or to love ourselves and choose our will. We, unlike his other creations, have the freedom to choose to love him. Our choice in this matter effects our lives and our subsequent choices.
A tortured person can choose death over a false confession...and some have. Many tortured people have gone to their death rather than bow down to a false god. In England there were priests dis-embowled, drawn and quartered because they would not accept King Henry VIII as the head of the Church. So, in a way, they are exercising their free will by choosing to falsely confess or not.
2007-11-24 09:42:38 · answer #3 · answered by Misty 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He was talking about the choices made being unpleasant not the choice being made because of unpleasantness...
2007-11-24 09:37:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It is not free will when forced.
2007-11-24 09:40:25 · answer #5 · answered by thundercatt9 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋