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Originally Posted by DontRunMeOver
If you're going to post, don't be so simplistic! And who was the last person you heard of who intentionally drank nothing until they died?
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I answered simplistically because its a simplistic issue and anyway, you could do the same thing with food. Bobby Sands did.
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Originally Posted by DontRunMeOver
Yes, people could choose to do things, in that their current actions aren't completely hindered by outside influences but is that free WILL, or free ACTION? The question about scientific free will is not just whether we have the ability to act or not act upon our desires, but also whether we can control the desires we get in the first place.
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Its all beliefs. Beliefs beliefs beliefs. A smoker believes that they need to smoke a cigarette because their addiction nicotine tells them, they do. Same thing with a heroin addict. Do you realise that heroin addicts feel the same way about heroin that we feel about food and water? The difference is that we will actually die without food or water yet Bobby Sands CHOSE to deprive himself of food in the full knowledge that he was going to die of starvation. A heroin addict can likewise choose to deprive themselves of heroin.
Chemicals and chemical imbalances affect the brain but choices can still be made because the person is aware of these chemicals being there.