Choice

“One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.”

P. J. O'Rourke

Unless eternity is deterministic, every carnate soul has certain inalienable rights. These inalienable (or natural) rights are birthrights; these are not granted by mortal agents. Such rights cannot, by any compact, be deprived nor divested. Every living soul has the right to recall a past experience. Every living soul has the right of confidence. Every living soul has the right of responsibility. These fundamental, inherent rights are the foundations of free will.