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Izzhov posted:I quite like this rubric. But to challenge it: it makes me think of the example of people who are addicted to substances. When someone is addicted, depending on what the substance is, the question of, "Can you choose to not do it instead?" becomes fraught. The severity of the addiction determines how difficult it is for an addict to choose not to continue using. How difficult must making a choice become before it ceases to be a choice? If you want to do something but can't bring it to happen, doesn't that speak more to the difficulty of the action than to whether or not you chose to try to enact it? If you encase a person in a steel coffin where they can't move, can you really say they don't have free will just because they can't choose to escape? Really, they can "choose" to, but the means of making that choice a reality may be beyond them. For what it's worth, I think that people have the tendency to behave on auto-pilot, but have the capacity to consciously take control of their decision-making processes. This is one of the purposes of mindfulness meditation and various Buddhist practices. I think such capacities can be compromised (through injury/illness/addiction/etc) but that they do exist.
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