The Will

The will interests me.

In the movie Runaway Train, Jon Voight kept yelling "You don't know what you are capable of!"

I think the will is a part of capability.

For me, having finished two marathons to date, I think that the will is in some sense, choosing something, perhaps over something else and often, something you don't, at present, want.

Choice...

is choice at all a meaningful concept for addicts?

Is addiction a disease?

Now consider obesity.

Is choice a meaningful concept in obesity?

This story from NPR:

Obesity Maps Put Racial Differences On Stark Display

"It is the largest epidemic of a chronic disease that we've ever seen in human history," says Dr. Donald Lloyd-Jones, chair of the department of preventive medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Chronic disease. Human History.

Is it meaningful to believe that the will needs exercise, just like the heart or other muscles?

When is nuance important and when is nuance merely subterfuge for a black and white crux that we simply don't like to accept?

The will.

The will to...

Accept the Crux