If you were entirely free - and could control everyone else - you'd be god. And probably not a very good one - because you'd abuse the freedom and try to control everything.
It's an extremist or a binary perspective - we're either free to do whatever we please or not at all. The idea that it is either white or black or dark or light or free will or not free will or right or left. I hate to break this to you? But only computers are binary and possibly some rudimentary creatures on the planet are binary life forms.., but now with current advances, "computers" not so much. Most things aren't binary. Once you stop thinking in "binary" terms, things make so much more sense. Everything is a spectrum, and most things fall in the hazy in between.
We all have free will, but not at the same time - it isn't an either/or, it is both. Just as we are all capable of wonderful and horrible things at the same time. When it is dark - there are shades of light, and you can see objects, when it is light, there are shadows. The tendency to make it either or is the fallacy, when in reality it is an ever-expanding spectrum or range. We're looking at wheel, not a chart.
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Date: 2021-05-09 12:43 pm (UTC)It's an extremist or a binary perspective - we're either free to do whatever we please or not at all. The idea that it is either white or black or dark or light or free will or not free will or right or left. I hate to break this to you? But only computers are binary and possibly some rudimentary creatures on the planet are binary life forms.., but now with current advances, "computers" not so much. Most things aren't binary. Once you stop thinking in "binary" terms, things make so much more sense. Everything is a spectrum, and most things fall in the hazy in between.
We all have free will, but not at the same time - it isn't an either/or, it is both. Just as we are all capable of wonderful and horrible things at the same time. When it is dark - there are shades of light, and you can see objects, when it is light, there are shadows. The tendency to make it either or is the fallacy, when in reality it is an ever-expanding spectrum or range. We're looking at wheel, not a chart.