| From the Desk of Don Yocham: I'm a Free Will kind of guy.
You might as well be born with "Free Will Included" stamped right on your bottom as far as I'm concerned.
Nature imposes only physical limits. Everything else boils down to a decision to act within those material constraints.
Whether you judge that aspect of the human condition a feature or a bug depends on your perspective. But regardless of your point of view, each of us possesses the fundamental capacity to choose for ourselves. Only you determine the next step. And only you decide the degree to which you impose your Will on others.
In a nutshell, where you draw the line on the whole issue of your Will relative to others forms the essence of moral action.
Some see no line.
To them, the ends justify the means. And when persuasion fails, those means include constricting your actions in an unceasing train of prohibitions and permissions.
Thankfully, throughout history, we have benefitted from a particular breed of Free Will revolutionaries. Visionaries hell-bent on creating conditions that respect everyone's right to choose. Intellects with ideas to subvert authoritarian designs by drawing the lines of an open society around everyone.
And when it comes to putting those subversive ideas to the test, they all know this:
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