You have free will but are only free to follow the rules.

[Greatest I am]

We do this arguement in Psychology, are humans really agents of our own free will or is everything we do determined by another force (eg biology, our environment etc) . It becomes a quite tedious and circular argument at times.

I think we have free will. We can abide by rules but we have a choice. I know choices are deterministic but sometimes those choices can be truely random and not based on any determined choices, thus it's free will.

Good thinking.

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DL

 

[alice in chains]

Lameo

 

[Greatest I am]

Lameo

If that is an acronym for something it missed this mark.

Tell more.

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DL

 

[Stone]

You have free will but are only free to follow the rules.

Is that really freedom?
The only freedom we have is to follow the rules or break them.
No other freedom comes to mind.
This would include either secular rules or religious rules.
Rules of physics and nature are understood.
This free will that you have is freedom that you take.
It is not given to you.
Freedom is not something that can be given unless it is first taken from you.
If we are in God’s image and He in ours, then is He hampered by this same condition of only being able to follow the rules or break them?

He seems to be.

Regards
DL

You have free will but are only free to follow the rules.

That's called a non sequitur......the logic doesn't follow and I'll show why.

The only freedom we have is to follow the rules or break them.

The above is the fallacy.
'rules' couldn't be broken if there was no freewill.
Add to that all decisions made where no 'rules' apply and it's easy to see you either haven't thought this through or you thought you could pass a line of BS.

Rules of physics and nature are understood.

Scientifically, that would be the laws of nature. And mankind hasn't figured out all the relationships.
But, a question......are you comparing the freewill of the mind to the physical laws of matter and energy?
I should remind you, the brain is a physical object, but the mind isn't. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind ) But go ahead, explain anyway.

This free will that you have is freedom that you take.

Another fallacy. Freewill is the freedom to decide, not necessarily the freedom to carryout that will.
The attempted brainwashing as you do in these threads, would be an imposition on freewill, just as it is from politics to fundamentalist indoctrination. People have freewill until it is taken away.

Freedom is not something that can be given unless it is first taken from you.

Being born a slave is a concept outlawed in most nations and definitely the US and Canada where you reside. Your logic doesn't work.

If we are in God’s image and He in ours, then is He hampered by this same condition of only being able to follow the rules or break them?

Since you based that rhetorical claim ( a fallacy--'begging the question' ) on previous fallacies, it's obviously flawed.