There is an ongoing philosophical debate regarding the reality and existence of free will. The concept of free will seems to demand that volition has no preceding cause. To suggest a cause to volition, would be to define volition as an effect rather than a source of 'free' will. While the entire Western judicial system relies on the concept of free will to render human beings responsible for their own actions, free will poses difficult - if not impossible barriers, to many scientific and philosophical minds.
One of the most profound arguments for the existence of free will is the apparent experiential reality of a free will decision.
In response, the denier will suggest that the experience of free will is but a cognitive illusion.
To this opinion I offer the following words:

Those who claim that free will is an illusion...
Have never in their life made a free will decision...
Those who say that we are nothing but a sum total of our desires, rooted in a cacophony of myriad causes from our nature and our nurture...
Have never risen above their baser selves...
One can deny only that which has not been experienced.

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