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Is Your Will Free?
As an undergraduate studying philosophy, i spent an inordinate amount of time wondering whether my will was free. This is the metaphysical question of whether any one can be said to have acted freely. The actions of man are never free, eighteenth cent determinist baron holbach once wrote. To day, before any of us decides what it is we wan, we open our phones and participate in our own manipulation at the hands of those who actively want us to think and see and vote differently than our own wills would have us do.