[MD] Choosing Chance

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Craig]
Owww.  The old "it must be so argument".  The 2nd most irrefutable argument,
next to "you can't have a Red Ryder BB gun because you'll put your eye out!" 

[Arlo]
Bad rhetoric, Craig. What I said was that both options MUST have a probability
greater than zero our else your "2) you could choose either" would not be true.

This is like your saying "my car runs" and I say "only when there is gas in it"
and you say "well, that's irrelevant to my stating my car runs". I say no no no.

[Craig]
Even then it would never be relevant in the lifetime of any human. Not a good
basis for a theory of free choice. 

[Arlo]
Without it, there would be no "free choice", only mechanistic certainty. The
point remains, unless there is some degree of probability among the choices in
front of you, you are not making a "free choice". 

In the case of vanilla or broccoli ice cream, that probability may be very high
for one and very low for the other, in the case of vanilla or chocolate the
probability might be more even, but if you remove all probability then you
eliminate "free choice".