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The Power of Free Will and of Things Already Determined

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             When a man must choose between heredity and environment he must one would say he must choose between desire and conscious. Blatchford uses the example of a man practicing at a target with a gun. He sees a rabbit; his finger is on the trigger if he presses the trigger the rabbit will be killed. He must choose whether or not to shoot. The man's will is "free- to choose. He could kill the rabbit or not. His decision rests upon his desire to kill the rabbit and of his scruples about cruelty and the law (he is hunting on private property). The sportsman would fire and the humanitarian would not kill the rabbit. What makes a man a sports men or a humanitarian. Blatchford says heredity and environment, or temperament and training. .
             Then the question of then how do you account for the acts that man doesn't wish to do. The example that Blatchford uses is a young woman present with a choice to go to a concert with her lover or go to the slums to meet a sick child. Like any of us she would rather go to the concert but out of a sense of duty she goes to the slums and visits the child. .
             "We must say that the girl is "free- to act as she "chooses-, but she does act as she ahs been taught that she ought to act. This teaching, which is part of her environment, controls her will (Blatchford 114)."" .
             Blatchford has put him in a strong position of argument but he has some large flaws. .
             Yet, suppose that Blatchford has a child. This child while Blatchford is not looking takes a crayon and draws all over the walls. Will Blatchford punish his child? Most likely he will. Parents punish their children for doing bad thing, other wise a child would grow up wild and have no self control; if Blatchford where to punish his child, he would be contradicting him self. Blatchford being such a hard determinist should believe that the child was not at fault because he has no free will. There for the child would and could not have done other wise.


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