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I Don't Believe In Free Will

So my goal in life is for people to be looked at without a negative label. It is instinct to do so when a person is harmful or displeasing, and while we all deal with the consequences of our actions, I do feel that a lot of times it is the words we speak to others that makes things worse.
Taking the time to hear someone out without imposing what we are biased for in our personal belief system, is very hard. But if we can at least attempt to look at what is in front of us for the sake of understanding, just understanding others I feel a lot of miscommunication and enmity can decrease.
If someone asks me why there is evil in the world, I’d say because everything is forced. I don’t say this in a pessimistic mentality sort of way, I say this in actuality, think about it. When someone is forced, you can adapt, but it doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll be satisfied when nothing was originally your choice. Now in the real world there are consequences for our actions, and rightly so to decrease chaos, although at birth we are dealing with a consequence of an action we didn’t take. From birth you start being evaluated, “Is my child too slow? What age did they walk? How early did they read?” And the labels start. Starting with your name, all labels placed on you are opinions on how useful, impressive, and obedient you are found to be. Am I saying to not be respectful to authority? No. I am saying that behind the actions of those we label with negative labels is trauma from having to deal with so much they didn’t choose. Yes, a lot of us overcome the odds, we follow the road of those that are admired by majority. But what lies in the actual minds of those who say, “I don’t want to please you.”
After I reasoned step by step how the “free will” everyone talks about is not necessarily “free” when you get down to what we actually chose in the first place, I can understand the frustration of a child, I can understand a screaming adult, I can understand anybody who is having a hard time.
I can understand that in my selfishness and desire of self-preservation I will run away when I feel endangered or dissatisfied. I never mean to offend any belief system, ever. Like I said my main goal is to analyze key facts that can make us understand others better with the end motive of decreasing the insults and negative words we use towards one another, to instead use uplifting words.
So I made this chart where I analyze how “free will” is not as “free” as it seems. We didn’t make our own brain, it functions as it does, I mean what part of us, of THIS world was originally chosen by us? So then how does it seem strange to us for some to have a hard time, when it is normal given the fact that we are being conditioned towards being convenient, that those who aren’t convenient are sent to be fixed or labeled, that survival is the motive behind everything.
Some people just can’t handle it, and IT IS understandable. Now I admit I’m selfish, that we like people to survive independent of us because we have 5 senses that feel displeasure when their every desire isn’t warranted. But when everything is forced upon us, it makes sense some will rebel.
Those of us who were lucky to grow up in environments where we were nurtured perhaps never even thought about this. Yet those who see the real world for what it is at a younger age without affection, or an ounce of empathy just correction, after negative label, then sent off here, then over there because no one can handle them, then seeing actions that are painful to them... it isn’t any surprise for what we do see out there, outside the windows of our homes.
BlueVeins · 22-25
I agree with what you're saying to some degree, but could you maybe try to separate your paragraphs a little better? Your post is kinda hard to read. Yes, of course the way you're raised has a huge impact on who you become, and yes, as a creature of the Earth, you have biological perogatives that you can't control. But we all have some degree of agency over individual choices, and individual choices accumulate to turn us into who and what we become.
xixgun · M
Sorry, people come in positive and negative. You don’t get to decide which ones are right or wrong, because you’re one of them.

 
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