No contradiction between the two. Human beings have natures, habits, character, etc. That fact that, say, depriving people of food will tend to produce hunger d

No contradiction between the two. Human beings have natures, habits, character, etc. That fact that, say, depriving people of food will tend to produce hunger does not contradict the idea that we have a measure of freedom in our choices. Of course, a simplistic, mechanistic view of the word will leave no space for anything but blind stuff bumping into other blind stuff, but that picture is wrong.