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Do Humans Have Compulsary Will? Which best describes your take on 'will'?

Poll: What is "will" to you?
This poll is closed.
Radically free in the full blooded libertarian sense.
0%
 0 0%
Free but inescapably (and thankfully) constrained.
17.65%
 3 17.65%
Compulsory. Nothing gets willed unless I get off my lazy ass.
5.88%
 1 5.88%
Free when not impeded by the will of another or circumstances beyond my feeble powers.
11.76%
 2 11.76%
"Will" is an illusion of the mind, a concept believed by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
23.53%
 4 23.53%
Will is epiphenomenal, a byproduct of useful processes of the brain.
23.53%
 4 23.53%
Other please explain unless the repeated call to so causes nausea. Check with your doctor to see if your constitution is strong enough for this debate.
17.65%
 3 17.65%
Total 17 vote(s) 100%
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Do Humans Have Compulsary Will? Which best describes your take on 'will'?
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RE: Do Humans Have Compulsary Will? Which best describes your take on 'will'?
May 29, 2015 at 6:30 pm
When you interchange the notions of "character" and "will," which I think is more appropriate anyway, the issue of free will is not so interesting. You are free to act in accordance with your character so long as some foreign extenuating circumstances are not compelling your decisions. This is why we show leniency to people who act out of sudden extreme passion as opposed to meticulous premeditation, or those who are suffering from a temporary fit of mental illness rather than a pattern of poor decision-making.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
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RE: Do Humans Have Compulsary Will? Which best describes your take on 'will'? - by Mudhammam - May 29, 2015 at 6:30 pm

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