Bradskii
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
- Aug 19, 2018
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If the answer is “because I wanted to” would you say I wasn’t free to act on my desire because I don’t control my desires?
If so, I’d disagree because we can control our desires through self discipline to an extent that’s arguably enough to consider it “free to do so” or at least “able to do so of our own accord”.
Nobody has argued that you are not in charge of making your own decisions. Nobody has said, for example, that your passions dictate your actions. You can stay in bed or go to the gym. You can have another beer or a tonic water. Unless someone is holding a gun to your head, the decision will be yours.
But if you get out of bed and go to the gym and the exact circumstances are repeated, then you will always get out of bed and go to the gym.
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