Sunday, October 28, 2012

Natural Laws?



Question 2: How does the state of natural law affect the idea of free will?

I feel like this blog post is very relevant based on the looming storm. I was wondering what effect the understanding of natural law has on free will. If we understand free will well enough then we can have some control of what happens in the wake of severe weather or natural disasters, things we believe are out of our hands. However, it would seem that if we have free will we could possibly change how we would act in the event of, say, a hurricane. It is, according to the idea of free will, up to the individual how they act in these situations. However, to a certain extent they cannot control how they react in certain situations. Some actions may be forced because of the situation. There is a fine line between what someone can control and what they cannot. I find the free will perspective to be rather mixed when considering things like this.

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