I'm taking your use of "essential" to mean "necessary". Addicts involved in recovery programs are routinely informed of alternative options. If awareness is freedom, then where is the freedom when there is awareness? Thanks — CeleRate
Not just awareness - also connection and collaboration. — Possibility
If addicts recover, then they were aware, connected, and collaborative. If they do not recover, then any of the three systems might not have been functioning. Did I get that right? — CeleRate
You can’t force someone to be aware, to connect or to collaborate. — Possibility
So, we must, in order to be free, be able to reject every want we have but if you'll notice this situation arises because we want to be free and that want - to be free - is programmed into us, without our consent as it were.
But if these are steps that individuals willingly and freely take. For those that feel guilt about hurting people they love and are connected to; for those that are aware of the options; for those that are participatory, willingly collaborating with others. What stops their will from resisting scratch tickets for example? — CeleRate
You know very well that free will is defined in terms of choice; no choice, no free will. — TheMadFool
This is a distinction without a difference. The capacity to choose must include the act of choosing. How would I know if you had the capacity to eat? By eating, right? The capacity to do x is inferred from doing x. How else would I know you had the capacity to do x? — TheMadFool
If a person does not resist buying scratch tickets when the three conditions you mentioned (awareness of options, connectedness, and willingness to participate) are present, then where is the will? — CeleRate
Focusing on resisting a particular action is not demonstrating awareness, connection or collaboration with the range of alternatives available. — Possibility
Is this a model you've come up with to explain free will?
Demonstrating awareness
Demonstrating connection
Demonstrating collaboration — CeleRate
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