It should be, because it's distasteful, but so is much of the
   education system and marketing of course. It's used in the
   movies. It's used in politics. It's used in Rhetoric.

   But does it eliminate free will?

   I don't think it eliminates free will. But what it _does_ do is
   place unwanted social constraints upon perceived choices.

   Mean-girls in the 3rd Grade did that by calling me a nerd.

   Thing is, I got over it by the time I was in 4th grade by
   "self-talk". I recited stick and stones on the way home from
   school until it no longer upset me.

   Nobody taught me to do that. The thing is: It was a lie. "Names
   will never hurt me" is a lie. I knew it was a lie then that I
   was telling myself. I knew it was bullshit:

   Names do hurt. I'm sure I can yank out a brain scan showing that
   name-calling registers as physical pain in the brain. I'd bet
   money it does.

   But, it's possible to eliminate the hurt.

   Free will to me, stretches across a lifetime. Sometimes my free
   will "seems" more free than others.

   Yet I believe you can do anything you want to, IF you're willing
   to change the context in which your assumptions lie.

   But the compliance gaining, to me, is distasteful but I don't
   think it's necessarily criminal, because just like a piece of
   music can temporarily manipulate emotional states, it's possible
   to break free of it.

   There _are_ different "tendencies" of people though.

   Not everybody will be emotionally manipulated in the same way.

   Odd that I make such a defense such as this, because I rant
   about the Education system and how it ruins the way people
   perceive the world.

   Yet, I can simply say a few well chosen words, and years of
   "programming" can be eliminated.

   Did they lack free will before? No. Their free will operated
   with the knowledge that they had along with their natural
   tendencies.

   Providing a little extra knowledge, allows for other choices and
   yet, they had those choices even before, because all humans CAN
   rationalize.

   Even being taught, "You have no choice" socially (which we are
   all stricken with from time to time", DOESN'T eliminate choice,
   because belief is not fixed within the individual. it's possible
   to break free.

   There ARE extreme circumstances however. Those are real problems
   and should be eliminated. ==== What ideas are you programmed
   with right now that you can't break free of that eliminates your
   free will?

   For example, do you believe the metaphor of computer programming
   is equivalent to the human belief system?

   Do you believe that some people have free will through proper
   training and other people do not have free will because they
   were programmed?