Do you believe in free will?

[rorymac]

If so, why? If not, why not?

Do you believe that we have control over our choices?

[Canelo Phresh]

The concept? Are we talking philosophically, religious, pratical applications? What specifically about free will?

[rorymac]

The concept? Are we talking philosophically, religious, pratical applications? What specifically about free will?

Philosophically

[D-MiZe]

Yes I do.

I refuse to believe someone has planned my life for me.

[MartinC]

Do you believe in free will? ?

What do you want me to say?

[Rapid Counter]

I want to believe in it but I'm not allowed.

[winky's right]

i don't believe in free will. i think it's an illusion and we're all governed by fate or chance. choices we make are either (a) predetermined, or (b) happenings of chance. neither imply, nor necessitate the existence of free will.

[rorymac]

What do you want me to say?

[rorymac]

Let me put forward a theory of mine that I subsequently found out had been expressed by Pierre-Simon Laplace:

If someone knows the precise location and momentum of every atom in the universe, their past and future values for any given time are entailed; they can be calculated from the laws of classical mechanics.

Can this be applied to human will?

[Canelo Phresh]

Philosophically

I believe in it entirely. Ive shaped my life off of it. Destiny is a belief of defeatists. The connection to morality that usually goes along with this debate is self explanatory. If you choose to murder somebody than you chose that action. If you choose to work for min wage and just get by you chose that path. If you choose to be faithful to your wife than you made a moral choice. If you chose to cheat on her then you made an immoral choice. I believe in morality as a choice as well. It goes back to free will. I am responsible for my actions.