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[quote name="Jerry Whorebach"]Excerpted from the <a href="http://www.actionbutton.net/?p=385">Manifesto thread</a> on Action Button: [quote name="icycalm"]Man is without free will because the concept of free will is absurd. “Free will and unfree will are mythology: in real life it is only a question of STRONG and WEAK wills.” (Beyond Good and Evil, paragraph 21). In other words free and unfree will are delusions. I am not “free” to lift a 1,000-pound rock no matter how much I may want to. A criminal is not free not to commit criminal acts, whatever the Christian or the Democrat may think. There is no indifferent substratum inside the individual which may freely choose to pursue this or that course of action, “for the desire for ‘freedom of will’ in that metaphysical superlative sense which is unfortunately still dominant in the minds of the half-educated, the desire to bear the whole and sole responsibility for one’s actions and to absolve world, ancestors, chance, society, from responsibility for them, is nothing less than the desire to be precisely that causa sui [cause of itself] and, with more than Munchhausen temerity, to pull oneself into existence out of the swamp of nothingness by one’s own hair.” (BGE paragraph 21) ... The range of possibilities of what a man may do, and what a man may become, are inscribed in him from birth (indeed, from long before that), in the same way that the range of possibilities in a worm or in a lion are. — And there are worms and lions among men as among animals. — And just as the worm will never become a lion no matter how many and how strong influences he receives from his environment, neither is it possible for the worm-man to become a lion-man.[/quote] [quote name="wrestleman911nvr4gt"]If I can lift a thousand-pound rock, does that make me an ant-man?[/quote][/quote]