(September 24, 2013 at 12:19 am)gilbertc06 Wrote: It's what those biological dependencies lead to. You can say right now that you would never ever ever eat a human being. That can all change if you are out in the middle of the pacific with just you and 2 other people.
Saying something can change is not equivalent to it being the case that it will change. Said person could choose to die rather than eat the other person.
Quote:Then there's the everyday stuff. Why do you think advertisers always go the 'sex' route? Because it works.
Manipulation of something we're attracted to - again - doesn't entail that said attraction will make one do anything. If such was the case advertisers would be raking in even more than they do now. Further, this still misunderstands the usual conception of free will (the libertarian view), which is that - to oversimplify it - even if everything was the same in a given situation in which multiple options were available, you could have done otherwise. In other words, for that view of free will, inclinations are possible where choice is concerned, but not necessitations.
