A Conversation with a Christian-Fundamentalist; About Morality and "Free Will".
My FB-friend, David Brown, recently posted a great post about Free Will (more specifically, libertarian free will; the kind that religious fundamentalists pretend we have). My thoughts on the matter: We will 100% always choose our strongest-felt motivator. If someone is faced with the choice of vanilla or chocolate icecream, ... they will imagine each taste, while they recall what those were like for them in the past. If they expect chocolate to be the preferred experience, they'll choose chocolate. But if they are in the middle of a "Free Will" debate with me, while standing in line, ... and I tell them they WILL choose whichever flavor they expect a more enjoyable experience from, ... they now have a new variable to weigh. Now they have to FIRST decide which flavor they'll enjoy more. And then they have to weigh the pull of that motivator ... against any desire they might have to "prove they have free will". But they'll still fail to prove they h...