Not A Choice

I wrote about the will here

And I asked “is choice at all a meaningful concept for addicts?

I guess it is up to a supreme court to decide:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/the-latest-court-eyes-drug-free-probation-order-challenge/2017/10/02/ea4c7124-a784-11e7-9a98-07140d2eed02_story.html?utm_term=.2ccd6f615bab

http://www.wbur.org/news/2017/09/24/probation-drug-test-sjc

“...she was unfairly punished because her relapse was the result of a disease, not a choice.”

I ask you dear reader, what is happening to free will?

What are the parameters of your quote unquote choices?

I also asked in the post noted above: “Is choice a meaningful concept in obesity?”

Consider: 40 Percent of Cancers Are Related to Being Overweight, Says Study

https://www.menshealth.com/health/cancers-linked-to-obesity

 

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

Thursday Haiku's

Thursday Haiku's

Five are in the first

Seven are permitted next

Then five for the last

See them walking by

Tis desire aroused in men

Stop walking by please

A rare sun warms, melts

Winter’s snow and frozen bones

Temporary, cold cometh

Inside her, life, now

Grows, breathes, hears, sleeps, kicks, feels, needs

Her life inside, soon

What will you lack friend

Run to, not from, and you shall

jettison that will

the terrible twos

test, push, say no, take YOUR place

defining your space

just one more haiku

today, better things to do?

Just one more for you