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RE: Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Lots of food for thought. I think it could be narrowed even further if we went that far..
Free will exists in specific situations with specific elements involved.
Free will as a blanket concept does not exist. Well maybe the "will" or the intention can exist. But freedom of action or choice does not exist as often as most people think it does..
How about that?
Thanks for the reply. You hit on the key to the puzzle which is context. We use the word freedom very loosely in general and it is more appropriate to say something like "I am free to do X as opposed to Y" rather than "I am free" in some vague broad sense. What we generally care about is freedom as used in a moral/legal sense and it is confusion with a cosmic free will that gets us in trouble.