Free will

What is the most prized possession of any man? Male, female, old, young and all alike. What is that thing that is more valuable to the human race next to life itself? Do you know it? It is called free will.
A gift and a curse. In the heart of men. Our own undoing and the tool of salvation.
It isn’t something that was made by scientists nor an invention of modern humanity. Fight or flight was woven into our being along with the capacity to love or hate, to care or turn away, to believe or doubt. We were created with free will; the ability to choose. It is deeply woven into the very fabric of humanity that to try to exclude the possibility of the suffering and pain which the existence of free will brings and involves will be to exclude life itself. The human machine was designed to do as he chose and given a guidebook on how best to live. The fuel and food he needs has been shown to him but there's no coercion as to what he feeds himself and how he feeds. God put this instinct inside man. Evolution cannot explain it. It is little wonder that a dog cannot exhibit the flair of a human and artificial intelligence cannot beat it. We still are the best species we know of - we're different.
Despite the free will fact, no one aspires to be a cat or elephant or any other being there is. We are the best of all the creatures. The human nature; though warped and twisted in some, is good enough for us that we can't be anything else and we don't want to be anything else. Why? We love our freedom! We blame it and hate our lives for it but we still confess that we need it. This free will thing has wrecked a lot of havoc on earth and its inhabitants but it can't be done away with! It is the solution, it holds the only way out!
Imagine what life would be like if every human being did not have a right to choose. What if your free will was taken away from you? Will you still be human? What if we bought our wills with money? What if we had to kill for it? What if we have to win it or do something drastic to possess a free will? Will it still be a "free will"? How much would it cost? What if it could be lost, or stolen? Would we act better? What if our bad/evil choices got us demoted to the levels of the animal kingdom? Would our world be a better place?
We should be grateful for our right to choose and the ability to do so. It isn't a luxury and is as important as our dead-or-alive status. You are not invincible. As long as you have that thing called free will, you can easily be destroyed - and that by your very own hand or mind or wherever the will is. Use your free will wisely; it may be free but it is a gift and it costs dearly.

Written by 'durotimi
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