(March 25, 2012 at 7:43 pm)NoMoreFaith Wrote: Fair point, in terms of playing devils advocate. If the choice is certain, you must defend it was freely made between alternatives.
If there is only one choice that can be made, it is determined.
Now, moving away from the devil's advocate and coming to my own argument:-
The definition of free-will you used was "being able to make an uncoerced choice between alternatives". The freedom your will is required to have is from coercion - that is - freedom from imposition of another will upon yours.
Now, let's consider your arguments here.
"If the choice is certain, you must defend it was freely made between alternatives." - True that. The choice was made free from coercion and it was still certain.
"If there is only one choice that can be made, it is determined" - True that too. But as long as it is you who did the determining and there was no coercion involved - free-will is not contradicted.