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silverwind9's avatar

I’ve never lived under a system that encouraged me to do the wrong thing. Have you? Do you think you have any freewill?

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Doris Wrench Eisler's avatar

You have never heard the motto, "greed is good"? It is the principle behind neoliberalism, endless competition, maximum profit and dishonest methods and claims- as in those that characterized the Covid vaccines, and so many other enterprises. I believe in free will, but there is the concept of the false conscience, societal brain washing, both on a secular and religious level. No one has free will unless they have the information necessary to decide what is good, not so good, and downright evil.

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silverwind9's avatar

You’re right. We all do have to search for the truth and then make decisions, hopefully, for the good rather than evil.

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