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Sunday, January 19, 2014

Moral free will

We all have what is thought of as free will, meaning we can make choices uncontrolled by our past or our personalities or our habits, but we rarely do as we are generally not paying attention and do things automatically.  Actually that is for the best as if we think about each choice we won't get much done.

The area of moral decisions is where this becomes important.  Our natures may incline us to selfish or otherwise harmful acts, but we can and many if not most generally do regularly overrule these natural acts to do what is right.

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