Gods with No Free Will or Men with Free Will- The Real Choice in Copenhagen

Ben Stein begins his latest article from The American Spectator with a quote from Shakespeare:

"What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty!…In apprehension how like a god…" so said the Bard, and of course, he was right. Man's capacities, for good and evil, are stupefying. In science, in language, in war, in healing, how miraculous are man's achievements.

And yet, so much eludes us and how tiny we are compared with our challenges. Disease strikes us down in our prime. We age and grow weak and then pass away, often cruelly. We make war upon our own kind and kill largely for sport. We cannot control the tides or the sun or man's theft from man.

But we try to rise above our puniness compared with our problems and pretend that we have solutions and explanations that will take away much of the mystery of life and history and make everything clear. We create models that we think make us appear to be gods.

Compare this writing to the usual drivel you get from the liberals in support of control over every aspect of our lives in the name of global warming. Here is George Moonbot, writing in the Guardian:

This is the moment at which we turn and face ourselves. Here, in the plastic corridors and crowded stalls, among impenetrable texts and withering procedures, humankind decides what it is and what it will become. It chooses whether to continue living as it has done, until it must make a wasteland of its home, or to stop and redefine itself. This is about much more than climate change. This is about us.

The summit's premise is that the age of heroism is over. We have entered the age of accommodation. No longer may we live without restraint. No longer may we swing our fists regardless of whose nose might be in the way. In everything we do we must now be mindful of the lives of others, cautious, constrained, meticulous. We may no longer live in the moment, as if there were no tomorrow.

On one hand, you have an educated man quoting Shakespeare and realizing that man is indeed a flawed person and not able to design a perfect system to figure out the world, but that man does a have a free will and that way to make the world a better place is to unleash that free will. On the other hand you have a man saying that the time is now, that we are the world, that everything is about us, that we are perfect people and can design systems to control every aspect of our lives, but that we should not have free will and liberty.

My question is which hand would you like to smack around moonbots with when they try to take away your liberty and freedom in the name of putting in place their perfect plans for running your life.