Free Agency? —- Mods: Please delete

[Jazz Fusion]

I didn’t see a duplicate thread.

 

[SteakNEggs]

Free agency opens Thursday. No coach, no draft picks, no enthusiasm for uniforms. Does this trend continue into free agency?

I hope I'm wrong but yes...

 

[NUMBERICA]

Free agency is merely another opportunity to explore trades. Jazz ain’t signing **** (unless they trade a large contract into someone else’s cap space).

 

[LogGrad98]

We all have our free agency to choose what we will do. This is like a well, a deep topic. Let's get into the philosophical aspects of free agency. @One Brow @Gameface @fishonjazz @Al-O-Meter @oneye

Oh yeah, this'll be juicy!

 

[One Brow]

Do we have more free agency than a computer, and if so, from where would it come?

How many Intel chips are the Jazz signing this year?

 

[footawn]

We may think we have free agency, but I would argue environmental influence and social conditioning limit the options our brains can even come up with.

 

[Jazz Fusion]

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. — Viktor Frankel

 

[One Brow]

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. — Viktor Frankel

The whole point of breaking someone with torture is to take away their attitude towards their circumstance.

 

[Release the Kraken]

We all have our free agency to choose what we will do. This is like a well, a deep topic. Let's get into the philosophical aspects of free agency. @One Brow @Gameface @fishonjazz @Al-O-Meter @oneye

Oh yeah, this'll be juicy!

No love for David Hume?

 

[LogGrad98]

No love for David Hume?

You are right! @David Hume @Maneesh

Feel free to @ anyone I forgot.

 

[LogGrad98]

An increase in choices actually makes us less happy...

I Can’t Decide! Why An Increase in Choices Decreases Our Happiness

"Many aternatives make it easy for us to imagine ones that don’t exist—a greater variety of choices actually makes us feel worse," says Dr. Barry Schwartz.

brainworldmagazine.com

Enter Barry Schwartz, psychology professor at Swarthmore College and author of “The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less.” Schwartz asserts that having increased options benefits people to a certain point, but as the number of choices keeps growing, negative aspects begin to appear. As the number of choices grows even further, we become less satisfied with the options we’re given, and the negatives escalate until we become overloaded. It’s at this point that our freedoms have paralyzed us. We end up making poor decisions; we’re more likely to be dissatisfied with the decisions we do make, or we become overwhelmed and make no decision at all.

Does this imply that we would be happiest with limited agency in general?

 

[David Hume]

You are right! @David Hume @Maneesh

Feel free to @ anyone I forgot.

Maneesh is a scholar of considerable erudition. I endorse his inclusion in this philosophy of the human sciences. I endeavor to lay out my position on free agency in a robust manner this afternoon, after I have been fortified by ale.

 

[David Hume]

After fortifying with ale, I conclude that the specter of some external power compelling us to make trades is an illusion that must be banished.

 

[Maneesh]

Maneesh is a scholar of considerable erudition. I endorse his inclusion in this philosophy of the human sciences. I endeavor to lay out my position on free agency in a robust manner this afternoon, after I have been fortified by ale.

How can I assist thank you thank you for be nice