[MD] Free Will

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Steve]
> You misunderstand.

 Not really.

[Steve]
> My point is that you can't choose to prefer
> something you don't already prefer.

That point did not appear until now, but let's consider it.
We all have preferences.  I prefer ski area X.  Then I try a new ski area Y.
Before I didn't consider scenery important, but Y is so beautiful that
I now prefer Y to X.  That's my choice--it wasn't already a preference. 

[Steve]
> Or do you have this special ability?

It's a special ability, but we all have it.

[Craig, previously]
> I prefer Italian food to Chinese food. The former just tastes better;
> I didn't choose it to taste better.
> But my wife is allergic to cheese, so when we go out to dinner,
> I prefer to go to a Chinese restaurant. That preference I do choose.[Steve]
> Please demonstrate your free will by willing a change in some such preference.

Done.  I just told my wife that tonight I prefer going for an Italian dinner.
Craig