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Originally posted by Jimbo
cause he's alone and it's not raining...
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Yep. That answers it, too. People do things that don't make sense, so anything done by a person, including murdering 20 or 30 people for the hell of it, doesn't necessarily GET an explanation.
I personally am a determinist. I believe everything happens for a reason and couldn't have been otherwise. We just don't know the reason in many cases.
The funny thing about free will, is that no matter how you look at it, it seems impossible. If everything is governed by physical laws (science, chemistry, etc.), then nothing happens outside the bounds of those laws. No room for free will there. On the other hand, if someone wants to argue that, based on subatomic physics, things happen that aren't governed by any known physical laws and are more accurately described in terms of randomness (which actually has a set of laws all its own), does freedom come out of randomness. Personally, I don't see how. Because *intention* isn't there, and without intention how can we talk about will?
Very weird this concept of free will. Now there you have a REAL riddle!