My views on objective morality

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The difference between a human parent running out to grab their toddler son off the street, and God changing things that would naturally happen, is that for God to do it would require divine intervention. And like Tibs said, you start getting into a slippery slope. Why didn't God stop the toddler from getting hit by a car? Why didn't God stop my brother from getting severe food poisoning last week? Why didn't God prevent me from stubbing my toe? If God were to prevent every negative thing that were about to happen, we wouldn't have free will anymore.

I have to ask: what definition of free will are you using? Because surely you understand that having free will doesn't automatically confer the right to be successful in every endeavor you freely choose, right? Like, if I exercise my free will to decide to go to the store and get some eggs, but the store is out of eggs and I'm forced to go home empty handed, you wouldn't say my free will has been violated there, would you?

Because the outcomes of actions are not tied to whether they were freely chosen or not: the car can be prevented from hitting the toddler without interfering in either the toddler's or the driver's free will, since they both chose the situation they're in regardless of how it turns out. Your brother can be prevented from getting food poisoning because having a complete suite of information about his food choices would just cause him to freely choose a better option, as additional information only leads to a more refined exercise of free will, not the lack of it. You can be stopped from stubbing your toe because simply knowing what might happen if you carelessly place your foot into that situation only leads to you better exercising your free will for a more favorable result, it doesn't remove your will entirely.

There are more ways to prevent bad things from happening than outright mind control, you know.