Agreed.
I do think Sam had articulated the objections to free will better than anyone Ive read at any rate.
As for energy investment, etc... I do agree. Will, generally takes effort, and along with that effort is tied up all kinds of other stuff which is very draining.
It's kinda like that last thread we were involved in. I just find after a great deal of time, energy, and investment that as a thread, and that thread was very emotional for me personally too, even though I was trying to be objective, but as any thread gets too complex and multi-paged, I just don't have it in me to invest in what would end up being a small book. There comes a point, a threshold, where I have to just stop and agree to disagree. Markaba and I used to run into this allot. If I were to take the time to address every point made and re-read over every page, every post. .. I'd be investing more energy and effort than getting any satisfying return I might hope to get from that effort. Maybe I'll take a stab at it again sometime down the road. For now though Im restricting my posts, and economiing my effort and energy for another day. :-)