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Originally Posted by August
No pretending involved, it was your choice.
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You miss the point entirely, which was the question of how you know it was your choice to make. Are we really free to make that choice at all. It's one of the great philosophical debates of history. To say you believe one way or another is fine, but to couch it as a definitive answer indicates that you are convinced of something you don't really know.
The reason the debate has gone on for so long is that no one yet has come up with a provable definitive answer. There is nothing here but opinion. Mine happens to agree with yours, but that's still all it is.
As Joseph Joubert put it: "It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."