(July 31, 2016 at 4:01 pm)RozKek Wrote:(July 31, 2016 at 3:52 pm)Irrational Wrote: Because if you want to go with a reasonable definition of "free", free and determined are not opposites of each other.
If it's already determined that you're going to eat chicken for breakfast there's not a single thing you can do to not eat chicken for breakfast. How are you free in that situation? Every decision you're going to make regarding that will have been determined, how are you free in that case? Don't say "Well I decided that for myself, and no one held a gun to my head" because even then you're constrained by the laws of physics. You're free from the gun but you're not free from causality. You make the decisions, but they aren't free.
That's fine. It's all a matter of perspective at the end of the day.