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The Case against free will

This chapter interests me the most because it deals with issues I have always had questions about. Where does free will come from? I as a Christian believe that free will comes from God. I say free will comes from God because he has already given us the ability to distinguish between what’s right and what’s wrong. One of the most interesting aspects of this chapter is the questions that are people responsible for what they do. This is very interesting because am sure at one time or another everybody has done something and said they didn’t mean to do it or that they had no control over it. I personally think everybody has free will and it comes from God, free will gives us the ability to know whether what we are doing is wrong or right.

Why should we be Moral?

This is another very interesting chapter because it deals with some of the problems that we deal with on a daily basis. What really defines morality today? Is morality based on Ethics and religion or people simply being moral because others watch what they do? In the story the Ring of Gyges, when he puts on the ring he is able to become invisible and basically do whatever he wants. How many people out there today who not take advantage of such a thing. It hard to really distinguish what really defines the moral code of conduct, from a Christian point of view I would say its doing what the Bible says. But then we also have the social contract we comes from a very neutral point of view, when you at ethics from this point the moral code of conduct of a human might be seen as selfish I say so because humans might be looked at as always trying to satisfy their personal needs and wants.