Is there anything wrong with violating someone's will?

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thistle said:
Why is mental impairment evil and a violation of freewill? That doesn’t make sense.
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For the same reason why marijuana or inebriation is evil -it takes away the reasoning powers.

Also, it is evil because there can be no freewill when there is no will to begin with, and so the very essence of mankind is violated.
 
fakename said:
For the same reason why marijuana or inebriation is evil -it takes away the reasoning powers.

Also, it is evil because there can be no freewill when there is no will to begin with, and so the very essence of mankind is violated.
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That is complete nonsense and without any basis at all.
 
It seems to me as though you are describing a situation where you are able to override a person’s will via some sort of manipulation whereby they lose their reasoning ability. Is this correct? So, by what means do you come by such power? And yes, of course it is morally very wrong.
 
Strong emotions, mental instabilities, surprises, etc… create a negative impact towards our ability to ration, yes.

Does that impede our will? Sure. I will that I never sin again, nor want to. But because I am disordered, that’s probably not going to happen. The problem is original sin, and that has nothing to do with God. Without original sin and our disordered state, strong emotions wouldn’t blind us from executing our right and proper will. Or, if we are “spooked” in Heaven after we are made perfect, will we suddenly commit a sin and fall? Of course not. Therefore it is a reflection of our disordered state.

This has nothing to do with God, unless you’ll go on to make the further claim that it’s God’s fault we have original sin, etc…
 
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