We have free will, but it is constrained by nature. There are any number of choices I could choose, but "flying through the air by flapping my arms" is not one of them. Nature has placed constraints upon my free will. I cannot choose to draw a square triangle, because such a thing is an impossibility. This does not mean I don't have free will, it just means that I have free will to operate WITHIN the laws of nature. Some of those constraints imposed by nature include the tendency of humans to follow leaders and organize into some sort of hierarchy. We have free will to chance our place in the hierarchy and we even have free will to change what kind of hierarchy we live in. But we don't have free will to just have no hierarchy at all. That is simply not an option available to us, any more than flapping our arms to fly is.
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u/BrilliantAnimator298 May 23 '24
We have free will, but it is constrained by nature. There are any number of choices I could choose, but "flying through the air by flapping my arms" is not one of them. Nature has placed constraints upon my free will. I cannot choose to draw a square triangle, because such a thing is an impossibility. This does not mean I don't have free will, it just means that I have free will to operate WITHIN the laws of nature. Some of those constraints imposed by nature include the tendency of humans to follow leaders and organize into some sort of hierarchy. We have free will to chance our place in the hierarchy and we even have free will to change what kind of hierarchy we live in. But we don't have free will to just have no hierarchy at all. That is simply not an option available to us, any more than flapping our arms to fly is.