24/11/2024
My thinking over the recent years because I didn't used to think about this at all my thinking over recent years is leaning towards the absence of free will for practically everything we think and do in our lives And I base that on the fact that over time things that we have done as people in our species at one time was you are totally to blame for that or something you did or something you we've learned no this person is more susceptible than you are to addiction There's a biochemistry there This person cannot just be made the life of the party because they're on the autism spectrum They don't control that in the way you might think they should just because you're the life of the party As you add up all of these things let's go back to epilepsy where before that was even a word you were occupied by the devil Did you do something bad Everyone knew you were not in control of it but today no one is saying did you have the free will to not have an epileptic seizure Of course not Do you have the free will to not be depressed The person who's ready to jump off the bridge in that instant do they have the free will to not jump off the bridge I don't think so And the more I add up and explore the human condition I'm forced to conclude that the direction we are headed is that we are all products of an absence of free will And as a result society needs more compassion for people who do not otherwise fit in
