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Originally Posted by apathist
The current on-going thread on free will is malodorous. Time to kill it.
People have been making freely-willed decisions long before science was born, you know, like people have been eating food for a long time too. What is this problem that causes so much angst?
Free will is volition. This is a real thing. Science studies it. Reality does not conform to your fundamentalist ideologies. Who among you tell your children that they have no choice?
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I don't agree, I've learned quite a lot from the posts on this thread, perhaps some of it I already knew, but it's nice to refresh your memory.
Part of the problem with parenting is to educate children that they do have a choice, too many times they misbehave because they don't choose to do the right thing. So it's not a problem of teaching them that they have no choice, but to teach them that they can choose.