RE: Free will and the necessary evil
November 2, 2022 at 11:23 pm
(This post was last modified: November 2, 2022 at 11:24 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 2, 2022 at 8:21 pm)Tomato Wrote: If there's no free will, doesn't that mean we can only do what we're supposed to do with no choice in the matter?
No, there may be no "supposed to" and not every choice is free by anyone's measure. Supposed to's are in the realm of fatalism where choice is irrelevant even if it is free.
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