| kain_kusanagi said:
That is total and utter bullshit. No offense, but it is 100% hokum. The kid could have decided not to buy either and get a drink from a water fountain and eat an apple when he gets home. Or he could buy a bag of chips or a toy or put the money in a piggy bank and save it up for college. Even after picking one and walking to the check stand his eye could catch a more enticing choice. Maybe at the check stand the kid could end up donating the money in the disabled jar instead of buying anything. Anybody can make up an example with only two choices and then rationalize it and make it seem plausible. The real world is much more complex and full of real choices. Our past does not dictate our lives it only informs us so that we can plan our future. The present is so full of choices we filter it out and don't even realize the hundreds of choices we make because they are often so trivial. We only notice the choices we make when faces with need, want, health, love, etc. Free will exists because anything else is impossible. There is no computer program running our lives. We are the writers of our own plotlines. What we choose to believe and do is our responsibility alone. |
Of course there are countless options for the kid, but the two presented are the only options that he really care about and are considering at the moment. I just wanted to make an as simple scenario as possible (unlike you who did the opposite) because this is applicable whenever a decision is made.
