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Free Will or Predetermination?28% Voted for by merrysoul15, Makessenseright.
I think that everyone has free will and that while there may seem to be determined outcomes(because two different, possible choices will lead to the same outcome), I think that we each make our own choices and that the paths we take are determined by if we think outside the box, taking the not-so-obvious decisions, or inside the box(picking one out of two possible outcomes that we can see, instead fo picking the third option, which is not so obvious).
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just addingVoted for by konshu.
Thought I'd add another comment since your feeling so lonely, lets see if we disprove fate and strike 1 for cause and effect, and get some people to to add to your topic. Who knows someone might even be able to explain it to me.
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DeterminismVoted for by Beena.
Determinism is the theory that human action is settled by forces independent of free will. Since every action is a reaction based upon free will and the Divine will combined, I feel that determinism can be avoided for a time but it will catch up soon as we cannot be stronger than fate, so sooner or later we will have to face fate.
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Popularity of postVoted for by HugoNewman.
I just realised that the popularity makes it more noticeable, so I’m going to persist with pointless replies to my own post in order to highlight it. Maybe then people will consider replying… My goodness, I’m desperately lonely.. Ah well.
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What Free Will IsVoted for by Wolf Heart.
Free will. Many belive it is to get your own way or to be ignorent to those around them. But that is clealy wrong. Free will is a thing that helps make the right choices in times when the only one at stake is not only you. Like example, you invented a lets say secret formula that can make an army of superstrong people and while protecting the formula you were captured and taken to an ememy base that wanted to use the formula for their own means. Though all the tourture and horrors you see what free will is. a last line of defence to not be used to hurt innocent people. If you had told the formula you would have lived but thousands maybe millions of poeople, brothers and sisters, parernts and children would have died. It is your will not the be trapped and made into a information kit to be used to do horrible things
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Is the cause/effect "apparatus", as Wittgenstein suggests, contingent?Voted for by HugoNewman.
I have been considering whether or not the determinist refutation of free will is based upon a contingent perspective or whether the cause/effect model is something inherent, perhaps even the core of our ability to rationalise?
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