Hi Neil,

Everybody has a free will, not everybody is taking advantage of it.
People choose to do things which cause them pleasure (addiction) or things which will take them away from pain (fear).

One and the other will cause that they will want more of one and less of the other. This itself will never end, causing them constantly to be dependent on somebody's decisions or dependent on somebody's else's actions which defies concept of free will entirely.

The only person who uses free will is the person who takes entirely responsibility for their own actions or accepts unconditionally everything which happens to them. In short they create world in which they are or the world in which they are has been created for them by they chose to own it.

Both are kind of utopias and are only available to those who are capable of recognizing that it is better to be happy than right, that one should do what is making them happy not what brings them money and power.

In short only happy people are those who make use of free will and the more often happy they are the more often they utilize their free will.

To sum it up, we have free will but not everybody is capable of making use of it all the time.

Your statement that we Don't have totally "free will" is only true if you mean that we fail to totally take advantage of it.

Bogdan Fiedur