Answer for: Does free will exist?
#3 We are a product of Culture!
What is Free, What is Choice these are both products of culture! How can we understand or beleive in these things with out first there existance in rhetoric! We have created the belief in free choice! What does Free embody?? What does Choice embody??
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I hate when people say this.
It's just saying "It's not my fault! I'm a product of my environment!"
Bullshit!
You have choices. They're not always easy, and sometimes your options are all bad ones; but you have the ability to decide for yourself... which may be the only freedom you really have.
I agree - . Free will manifests itself in the ability to act outside of culture's strong suggestions.
This isn't a matter of semantics at all - Resigning yourself to being a product of culture is denying yourself your right to a free will.
While I disagree to an extent (we are certainly influenced by our respective cultures to a certain extent) with the absolutism of this answer, I'm really having a hard time parsing the description.
The second sentence is particularly puzzling to me. We can't believe in free will without there first being the rhetoric of free will? Who created that rhetoric? Are you saying that the concept of free will is a preordained falsehood, with accompanying rhetoric?