Oedipus heard the oracle of his life he would murder his father and marry his mother. Instead of asking who he thought were his parents if the oracle was true or false he decided to flee. Why on his way to Thebes did he let his rage take over him? Then he solves the sphinx and is able to marry the queen of Thebes yet it never crossed his mind that he should not be marrying a women that could be his mother. Oedipus had the ability to have free will and determinism but chose not too. Plenty of people to this day go through things they could've gotten themselves out of yet use the excuse "it was meant to be" .
In the movie Minority Report and the Article Free will and determinism it talks about this pre-crime prevention system and how it predicts future murders that will occur. The detective in the movie had said "it is human made so it has to have a flaw" while everyone was thinking this was perfect he knew there had to be something wrong with it. I agreed with him none of the murderers had committed a crime but because "the precogs see the future, and they're never wrong" they was still arrested and charged with murder. Isolated from the world forever. We would have never known if at the last minute the person would have decided not to go through with the murder, it was basically innocent people in jail forever. Pre-crime and precogs take the ability of having free will away from people. Even though minority report is based on future times things like that are happening today with these "stop and frisk" the police do. Their determinism to provide citizens with a safer environment by stopping people and searching them for any "weapons" has yet since it started been without any flaw. They usually stop and frisk what to them look suspicious meaning if your minority you will be stopped and searched because of the way you look. They barely stop and frisk the white men because they do not look suspicious. See the flaw the time wasted searching a minority man who look suspicious but had nothing on him could've been used to search a Caucasian men who could of have guns and drugs on him. The police men have free will yet chose determinism. Everyone has free will and control over there lives.
