Could you forgive someone who shot you?

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

This brings to mind a provocative view of free will I've recently read and have mulled over. The picture goes something like this.

But free will is not random chaos, so I don't think your dialogue refutes free-will. I think we do make choices all the time - even unpleasent ones. But also, free will does not make us omnipotent - we are all trapped within a certain set of restrictions of what we can and cannot do. My inability to fly does not mean I don't have free will even if I want to be able to do it.

As for forgiveness, I the concept is the best thing to come out of Christianity - and what ever other predecessor religions it was apporpriated from.

I'd like to think I coulod do the same as the girl.