Free Will

You have a special power called choice that lets you pick which path to take. Even when things are hard, you get to decide if you will be a helper or if you will be selfish. It is like being the captain of a little boat in a big ocean. The waves might be messy, but you are the one holding the steering wheel. This choice is what makes your life yours and nobody else's. Your yes and your no are the most powerful things you own.

Your yes and your no are the most powerful things you own. Without choice there is no good and there is no evil. There is only programming. A robot that helps someone is not good. A robot that hurts someone is not evil. Because neither one chose. Choice is the ingredient that turns action into morality. You are not good because you were built that way. You are good because you could have been selfish and you chose not to be. The choosing is the whole point.

Free will: the capacity of agents to choose between different possible courses of action unimpeded. Central to moral responsibility — without choice, good and evil lose ethical weight. Creates non-deterministic probability in human experience. The engine of the Everlasting We: allowing genuine love and sacrifice because those actions are chosen rather than programmed. The choosing is the whole point.

SOUND: A single voice singing out in a quiet room: one choice breaking the silence.

SMELL: The sharp waking scent of a peeled orange: something that only releases when you act on it.

TASTE: The sour zing of a lemon that makes your whole face move: flavor that demands a response.

TOUCH: Your own fingers interlacing and squeezing together: the hands choosing to hold themselves.

SIGHT: A fork in a trail where you must go left or right: the visible shape of a decision.

BODY: The feeling of initiating a jump: the body choosing to leave the ground.

Music: Above the Clouds of Pompeii by Bear's Den

Music: God Says Nothing Back by The Wallflowers

Music: I Walk the Line by Johnny Cash

Part of Good & Evil — RELIGION — Education Revelation