Free Will

Here is a quote that I read on Facebook today: "Free will doesn't mean doing whatever you want. It means the freedom to do what is right." This quote seems very mistaken to me. I realize what the writer is striving to achieve. She wants each morally responsible adult to do what is right all the time, versus doing whatever feels good or is tempting to do. I would rewrite this quote: "Free will means having the power to do whatever you want, although you often will not exercise this power in ways detrimental to others or yourself. Free will means the freedom to do what is right or what is wrong, with accompanying full awareness of the implications of choices made and implemented." Free will doesn't mean to do whatever you want. It does mean that you have the innate power of choice to choose to do and to do whatever you want to. It is not advising that you do whatever you want to; being free means you can choose to and literally can elect to race a car into the side of a train at 100 miles per hour. Doing so of course is highly dis-recommended. Being freed up to choose and do whatever you desire to do entails moral, legal and spiritual consequences in this world and in the next, for God keeps tabs on the free choices we make, and we of course answer for all we do and choose. Free will, again, does not mean doing whatever you want. Free will means having the power to do whatever you want, though self-restraint is highly advised. Free will means having the freedom or power to do as self-elected, be the action right or wrong. A moral agent in possession of and wielding a free will means having the say to do whatever you choose to do or actually do.