Philosophy

DIRECTIONS: Write a complete, thoughtful, and thorough reply to the discussion forum question. THIS WILL INCLUDE the use of evidence for your position from your own experience AND from outside sources. I need to see a credible outside source like the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Local/State/Federal Government website, cited somewhere to give support to your points.

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QUESTION: If a free choice is a choice made without any influence from anything except our own will deciding to take this or that direction than do any of us ever make a completely free choice?  In today’s world so dominated by powerful influences like the advertising industry, how can we be absolutely certain that any choice we have made has been an entirely free one?