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Mar 23, 2007
‘Our freedom to make ethical choices is only an apparent fre
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‘Our freedom to make ethical choices is only an apparent freedom’
It is sometimes argued that the freedom we feel as though we possess is merely apparent
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If we were completely free of all external causes and conditions, we would never stop to think about what we ‘ought’ to do, because we would never be influenced by anything that might suggest one cause of action rather than another
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Therefore, if this is true, taking ethical action such as abortions or genetic engineering is actually decided by brain impulses, therefore, when we feel as thogh we are making our own choices, the freedom we have is only apparent
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However, to make sense of ethics, we need sufficient freedom to act, and take responsibility for our actions, in the context of a finite range of possible courses of action to take
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Therefore, you are not free to make a moral choice, because of the values of the culture
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Therefore, it can be argued that when making ethical choices it is brought about by other causes that pre-exist them
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A common form of defence offered by someone who has been accused of doing something, which is deemed immoral, is that he or she was not free to choose to do anything else
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Therefore, when we make ethical choices the actions we take have already been decided
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We may not actually understand why everything the world is how it is, but we accept that everything is theoretically capable of being understood
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If you are absolutely free to do whatever you choose, you can be held morally responsible for your actions
