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Originally Posted by Neapolitan
If I compared the difference philosophical difference between you and a rock, I couldn't bring up the idea you have free will and a rock doesn't? - because there's no way to prove it?
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No, you couldn't. You couldn't prove that my actions were done out of free will, or if they were predestined by God. Just as you could not prove that a rock "chose" to lay on the ground, or if God predestined it to lay there. I'm obviously humoring you, as a comparison between a conscious being and a rock is ridiculous.
I guess you misread the tone of my previous post. As long as there are people that believe in an all knowing, all powerful God, the ideas of free will versus predestination will always be in question. Setting aside religious beliefs, any person with an ounce of common sense can see that people choose their own actions. If they didn't, then no one would be punished for a crime, since they supposedly didn't "choose" to do it, it was "predestined."