Free Will: The innate ability to make a decision 'freely' or without a cause. Besides being an oxymoron (free will means a causeless cause), free will is commonly used as a rationalization to give up finding a cause for behavior, thus limiting behavior modification techniques to indifference (see social darwinism), blame, ridicule, corporal or capital punishment, and eternal damnation.
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