When I first started to pay attention to my religion classes at school, I was 10 or so, I heard my teacher say that we all had free will. He said it so strongly that I had no other choice but to think he was right, after all it was he who had gone to college(HA HA). Now, when I think about it, I find it kind of weird because even if I had thought he was wrong, I wouldn't have been able to prove him otherwise, largely because at that age I could barely think by myself.
Currently, I'm about to turn 18 and finished school last year. I can tell you that my way of thinking changed abruptly as I grew up. Now I'm a more cultivated person who is always in the quest for knowledge. When I'm asked if I believe in free will, I smile and say that that belief can be easily debunked with a whiff of common sense. Let me show you: ........