badgenome on 08 August 2012
| IIIIITHE1IIIII said: Except sometimes choosing the less preferable options can also be the most profitable options. Buddhists are prime examples of this. In the end, they profit from disregarding/removing their desires. |
But that doesn't preclude free will. If anything, it's a demonstration of it. Because someone may find it more profoundly fulfilling to not indulge themselves doesn't mean there isn't still a constant battle of will power to not do those things. They are exercising their will to do something that isn't easy.
An animal can't do anything other than what it wants to do, therefore it doesn't have a free will. Whereas a person can very easily do just what he wants, or he can - with some degree of effort - do the exact opposite.
