Latter Day Sinner

I am a believer in the concept of moral agency. This is primarily a religious view. The freedom to choose is baked pretty deeply into Mormonism. But another secondary reason it that it seems counterintuitive at best that humans would have evolved a sense that we have freewill if it were only an illusion. That said the ability to choose is not absolute. If my leg is uncomfortable I can’t order a new one from Amazon and change my own parts. If I kill someone in cold blood, then society can and should rise up against me. If I jump off a roof and flap my arms to fly the law of gravity will punish me. If someone restricts my choices before I can do any of those three things it is valid and just. We are free to choose and will suffer the consequences of our choices, but we should not always be free to choose. In the Bible Cain asks God, “Am I my brothers keeper?” I think in some real ways the answer to that should usually be a resounding: Yes.