[MD] Choosing Chance

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Arlo] 
>  Final comment... So long as you have 
> the freedom to choose, some probability must exist for each choice. 
> If you eliminate that probability, then there is not a choice. 


1) I chose vanilla ice cream 
2) If I wanted I could have chosen broccoli ice cream 
3) I didn't want to choose broccoli ice cream 
4) Nothing forced me to chose vanilla ice cream 
5) :. I freely chose vanilla ice cream 

Do I need this additional premise?: 

3.5) there is some probability I would want to choose 
        broccoli ice cream. 

Given premise 3), I don't see where premise 3.5) plays any role in my reasoning. 
You might say 3) entails 3.5), but what would that argument be? 
  
[Arlo] 
> red-bean ice-cream...Delicious! I order it every time... 



You might have something there.  The  vanilla bean itself is dark brown. 

[ Andre] 
> my summary and ask you to respond ( unless you consider 
> this thread to be a dead end) 
> Steve's [/Craig's also?]  position seems to be: freedom  is expressed 
> in the choice of that which is given...the broccoli icecream or something else. 
> Arlo's position seems to be: freedom is experiencing that which has 
> not been given...yet. 

A thread is never dead...dying, maybe. 

I will try to respond if you explain & give examples of what "being given" is?   
Craig