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RE: Are Our Choices Truly Ours?

in Hive Learners2 months ago

Hmm, I enjoyed this, and I get your point. Well, while genetics plays its role in making us like or do things because we are genetically programmed like that, that doesn't mean we don't have free will. Haven't you seen some children who are born into one religion but decide to change even if that's what they have been doing since the Part 4 generation?

Apart from that, there are many people who refuse to do something even though their folks are doing it. One more thing is that some people can fight against genetic traits, making them live a different life from what people think they would and that's free will.

This was an interesting read. I do love the point you made.

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You have a more optimistic view than mine, but I think that in this case of the child you mentioned, something in her environment probably changed, this influence of her changing religion came in some way. And yet, she changed her religion, and did not become an atheist. So even this interest in wanting to connect with the divine, even if it is a different religion, shows a predisposition to this. I believe that we can fight against what we are programmed to do and think, but deep down, we will always want what our blood wants.

hehehe, I like you already and the way you put your words. What you also said is right.

Thank you, it was a good discussion (: