the issue with free will is that even with 100% free will, life is an optimization problem. we can not possibly make a conscious decision for everything we do.

the issue with free will is that even with 100% free will, life is an optimization problem. we can not possibly make a conscious decision for everything we do. we'd stop breathing. therefore we must rely on doing things by habit. and where do we learn habits? from our parents. i fall on strongly on the nurture side of the nature vs nurture question, but the issue is that with the amount of habits and behavior patterns that we acquire, we simply don't have the capacity to change all of them without effort. we can change a few at a time, and each can take considerable effort to change. not to mention many that we are not even aware of. in short, there is no need to fall back to nature as a reason for why certain behaviors don't change. moreover, even if a certain behavior is nature, i believe willpower can allow us to change that too. what bothers me is that nature or lack of free will are abused to excuse certain behaviors as unchangeable. everything can be changed, because humans are very adaptable. we just need to carefully consider which things we actually want to change.