Question

In the book The Science of Freedom, p. 87, two exceptions are mentioned in which even the libertarian agrees that there is no free choice. The first is an “urge that cannot be overcome.” Does this mean that in such a case there is no free choice at all? If that is the intent, why would a case in which “the topographical mountain of the psyche is too steep” (as described there later, for example, the saddle) be essentially different from a case in which the mountain is less steep? Or perhaps the difference is only quantitative, except that there is some level of “mountain-steepness” that one cannot demand a person overcome, and therefore one should not punish him for such acts?