free will

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Medically assisted dying is allowed in Germany under certain conditions, the outlet said, for people who are legally capable and acting of their own free will.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2025

Such theological reasoning is serious, stalwart and chilly, not unrelated to the cold logic of double predestination and the denial of free will.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

"But if she doesn't, then God says everybody has free will, and so that doesn't cause a problem for me."

From Barron's • Nov. 1, 2025

Jordan understood the danger of a common identity versus free will, and how the barriers of a state-sanctioned identity are both disastrous and dangerous to humanity’s evolution.

From Salon • Oct. 30, 2025

Of course, one could say that free will is an illusion anyway.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking