(August 8, 2021 at 12:26 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: -ofc, and there's vast room to disagree and other ways of thinking about it. I'm content to call it a selective preference so that we don't need to get bogged down with choice. I would also suggest that regardless of whether we do or don't have free will, "choosing life" is a process of rational selection.
Choosing life only becomes rational if we "could have done otherwise." Without it, the term rational loses all meaning.