WebsterMark wrote on 05/29/19 at 09:41:11:If I put certain ingredients in the right quantities, in a certain shape, put them in the oven at a certain temperature for a certain length of time, I will get the same results, cookies.
The ingredients have no free will. They respond based on their chemistry and heat. Even before I start cooking, I know the outcome.
If life is begun on a habitable planet, do the evolving life forms have freewill or are their thoughts, actions, emotions based solely on their chemical makeup? And if you were somehow capable of knowing, down to the atom, the makeup of every person and every circumstance they would face, would you know in advance what the outcome would be?....much like you know the outcome of the cookie even before you begin mixing the ingredients?
Well Web, choices will always remain, until you take your last breath....
If a person chooses to stay out in the cold, homeless, then its a choice, but too, choices have consequences.....
Freedom of no restrictions, or obligations, is freedom from those constraints, but in doing so, the cookie recipe has changed, maybe because of those choices they call freedom, leaves them low on sugar and flour....so, as we see evidenced here on this site, when you don't have all the necessities to present a well baked cookie, you just go with, more nuts