When was America great ?

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(07-10-2023, 02:28 PM)Lucidus Wrote: Which concept of free will do you believe in?

I am a firm believer in human agency.  We all make choices based on past learned experience, interpretation of current events and predicted future consequences.  Some do one of those more than the other.  We are a collection of learned experience, but we are not slaves to our past.  Essentially, while our past and present inform our decisions we are not bound to them if they produce malignant, or even poor, results.  We can learn and overcome them, even reject them entirely.

In short, adults are responsible for their decisions.  Some are set up better to make advantageous decisions and some are not.  But, especially in an age of readily available information, there is nothing stopping us from learning and growing, discarding what doesn't work and acquiring what does.