(May 8, 2016 at 9:12 am)Excited Penguin Wrote:(May 8, 2016 at 8:52 am)Irrational Wrote: Yeah, but he said that free will is on a spectrum. You may not have complete control over anything due to external factors, but putting those factors aside, continuing to post here becomes a matter of you desiring to do so. No one else is forcing you to post or not post here in such a scenario.
How is someone else forcing you instead of your genes/environment forcing you any more depriving of free will?
Well, it all comes down to how one defines free will obviously, but there is a difference between doing something that you at least feel like you did by choice and doing something because you were forced to.
It's all relative, of course. If by free will, you're like many others referring to that weird something that isn't even definable, that should be of no relevance. It doesn't concern us.
