free will

"Going back on my own free will, compared to all the rules I had to live by when I was last there, that was liberating for me."

In the right dose it can reportedly make people highly suggestable - temporarily compromising a person’s free will.

The song starts with an idle thought - “I cut my hair the way you say you like it / Have I got no free will?” - that spirals into an existential crisis.

“What the Hearsts wanted to do more than anything is preserve the narrative that she didn’t do any of this on her own free will,” Harris said.

Whether or not we involuntarily commit and treat the mentally ill and addicted raises existential questions about free will, dignity and individual autonomy.