Re: changing the original sex
so i'm barging into another heated discussion =)
i agree with michelle, but i'll take the extreme end. i think even with peer pressure, or environmental pressure. FREE WILL is still there. not just a little, but everything IS due to free will.
don't believe me? let's see.
what causes a woman to have to get an abortion? premarital sex. why do people have sex? because they have the drive to. HOWEVER, they can choose NOT to. you can see real-life examples of free will whenever you have the ability to MAKE a choice. you have a choice NOT to have sex before marriage, if you're so afraid of getting unplanned pregnancy. i'm almost 20 years old, and i'm not embarassed to admit that i'm still a virgin. i have a girlfriend, yes, but she's also still a virgin, and there you have free will: we CHOOSE not to have sex until we're married. just because we have pressures from the society, environment and whatnot, and we have the drive to procreate, does NOT mean that we have no free will. being pressurized is not an excuse to make a wrong decision. say you're being pressurized by the whole world to abandon your parents for the rest of your life, would you do it just because you're being "pressured?" if you've got issues with your parents, then that's another ballgame, but just because you're being pressured? sorry, but i think choosing to do something because of peer pressure is stupid. i myself have been getting these pressures since a couple year back: weed, cigarette, sex, streetrace, alcohol, but i've always managed not to give in. free will in action, nay?
now about society pressuring one to get an abortion, or as you said "circumstances." true that circumstances, culture, established moral and ethical values, and other crap like that pressure a woman to get an abortion. but again, consider whether she has a choice or not. does she have a choice NOT to get an abortion, despite all this pressure? YES SHE DOES. if she has a choice, then she has free will. it's not whether one has free will or not, not whether one chooses freely or not; it's whether one GIVES IN to the pressure or not. if you're pregnant, have no money to start a family, pressured by this and that and whatnot to get an abortion, that doesn't mean you're not doing it freely. if you want, you can choose to keep the child and work or something. it's gonna be a hard, or rather hellish, life, but it's the consequences; you perform an action, you bear the consequences. i personally have no stance on whether abortion should be legalized or not. i believe this is an issue where both yes or no is an appropriate answer, depending on the situation. but i cannot accept an argument that claims that one gets an abortion not because she freely chooses it.
on a side note, i also don't think keeping a child from premarriage pregnancy would be bad. of course the parents will be living a hard life, but as long as the child is brought up well, he/she can be a great person. there's a story which details i vaguely remember. it's about a poor old lady who's giving birth to her ninth (or 12th, i dont remember) child. she contemplated on whether she should get an abortion or not because she's the only one feeding her children, her husband left her already. she decided to keep this child, and it turned out to be a good decision, since if she had chosen otherwise, mozart wouldn't have been born.
i agree with michelle, but i'll take the extreme end. i think even with peer pressure, or environmental pressure. FREE WILL is still there. not just a little, but everything IS due to free will.
don't believe me? let's see.
what causes a woman to have to get an abortion? premarital sex. why do people have sex? because they have the drive to. HOWEVER, they can choose NOT to. you can see real-life examples of free will whenever you have the ability to MAKE a choice. you have a choice NOT to have sex before marriage, if you're so afraid of getting unplanned pregnancy. i'm almost 20 years old, and i'm not embarassed to admit that i'm still a virgin. i have a girlfriend, yes, but she's also still a virgin, and there you have free will: we CHOOSE not to have sex until we're married. just because we have pressures from the society, environment and whatnot, and we have the drive to procreate, does NOT mean that we have no free will. being pressurized is not an excuse to make a wrong decision. say you're being pressurized by the whole world to abandon your parents for the rest of your life, would you do it just because you're being "pressured?" if you've got issues with your parents, then that's another ballgame, but just because you're being pressured? sorry, but i think choosing to do something because of peer pressure is stupid. i myself have been getting these pressures since a couple year back: weed, cigarette, sex, streetrace, alcohol, but i've always managed not to give in. free will in action, nay?
now about society pressuring one to get an abortion, or as you said "circumstances." true that circumstances, culture, established moral and ethical values, and other crap like that pressure a woman to get an abortion. but again, consider whether she has a choice or not. does she have a choice NOT to get an abortion, despite all this pressure? YES SHE DOES. if she has a choice, then she has free will. it's not whether one has free will or not, not whether one chooses freely or not; it's whether one GIVES IN to the pressure or not. if you're pregnant, have no money to start a family, pressured by this and that and whatnot to get an abortion, that doesn't mean you're not doing it freely. if you want, you can choose to keep the child and work or something. it's gonna be a hard, or rather hellish, life, but it's the consequences; you perform an action, you bear the consequences. i personally have no stance on whether abortion should be legalized or not. i believe this is an issue where both yes or no is an appropriate answer, depending on the situation. but i cannot accept an argument that claims that one gets an abortion not because she freely chooses it.
on a side note, i also don't think keeping a child from premarriage pregnancy would be bad. of course the parents will be living a hard life, but as long as the child is brought up well, he/she can be a great person. there's a story which details i vaguely remember. it's about a poor old lady who's giving birth to her ninth (or 12th, i dont remember) child. she contemplated on whether she should get an abortion or not because she's the only one feeding her children, her husband left her already. she decided to keep this child, and it turned out to be a good decision, since if she had chosen otherwise, mozart wouldn't have been born.
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