Individen existerar inte...
Posta den här i political discussion (därav det engelska språket) för ett tag sen, tycker dock det är en intressant filosofi (som jag kom på själv men som troligtvis många innan mig oxå kommit på ) som man bör tänka på lite oftare.
Free choice - By St_Andrew 
This is what most of the modern world is built upon, but what is really free choice? Does it really exists? I state it does not, not really.
Free choice exists in a way, because every man takes his/her own decisions. But the problem is that every decision already has a given outcome. No one in this world controls his/her decisions.
A decision is based either upon a person's environment or upon a person's own brain (his knowledge and genetics). I can not see how the individual can in any way change this. We are born with our brain and we are placed in an environment, so where is the choice?
Now you are thinking, “no that is not true, we do have a choice”, but then please tell me how else can we take our decisions? THERE IS NO OTHER WAY!
Examples:
A person is in a store, he is going to buy some tomatoes, the store has 2 kinds, one that is cheap (but not the best) and one that is delicious (but expensive). If this person is rich (he knows that --> knowledge) and/or love tomatoes (genetics) he will buy the expensive one. He had a free choice, but where were the free choice, really? It was already given what he would take.
There is an election, every person vote what they think is the best for them/society. First of all some only think of themselves and others think of the whole (this depend of their raising, environment and their genetics, but still they do not control if they are ego or not.). Secondly everyone does not have the same knowledge (some persons knows a lot (want to learn, gen/environmental thing), some do not, nothing you can affect). There is no other ways you take your decisions in an election. So everyone has a free will to vote on whatever they want in the election, but the decision is already given based upon the things i just mentioned
Of course this is just simplified examples, but the same goes if there is 2 million different choices or aspects of a problem.
Another example of this is that most middle classers continue to be middle class, most over class continue to be that, and working class continue to be that, etc. This is clearly NOT a coincidence.
I could take endless of more examples but i hope you got my point now.
So how do i think we should apply this in society? Make everyone irresponsible for the actions? No that would definitely not make sense. We still have to punish murders as a deterrent example (for the ones with knowledge and genes/raised that follow god and bad). BUT we should take care about this people, we should not let them rotten in some dark prison, they should also have the right to a decent life, even though they are murderers. This apply to all kind of people that are disadvantaged of todays society (poor, less smart, sick etc). Everyone should have the right to a decent life, nothing really is their fault. Though the problem is that everyone could not have a perfect life without doing anything because in that case no one would want to be a doctor, CEO or something else that would take up a lot of your time of their lives. It is all about to find the perfect balance and to make everyones raising/environment as good as possible, which is not an easy task of course.
So a person's failure is not really the person's fault, it is the society's fault alternatively the person's genes.
Fick iaf dom flesta där att hålla med om att free choice inte existerar och dom fick mig att inse att det faktiskt är individen som är free choice, så därför existerar inte individen heller och vi är alla slavar till våra hjärnor och omgivningar.
Vad som dock var den stora frågan där var om varje beslut har en given outcome eller inte? Jag hävdar att det har det. En annan fråga var om man överhuvud taget ska bry sig om detta i samhället...
Hoppas att detta snurra till det lite för er iaf 
Discuss.
|