Topic: Free will as an indicator of a benign/malign agenda
To begin this discussion I'm going to make some assumptions:
1. Humans have an amount of free will.
2. The more conscious an entity is, the more free will it has. A rock has little or no free will. An insect has more free will than a rock. A human being has more free will than an insect. This leads to the probability of entities existing with more free will than humans, and possibly an Absolute entity that has absolute free will. Which leads me to...
3. Consciousness evolves among lifeforms and becomes greater in the evolutionary process.
4. Awareness, in the Universal sense, is synonymous with consciousness.
OK, considering the above, free will can indicate a benign or malign agenda. The amount of free will one exhibits indicates how conscious one is of the Universe, because more awareness of the Universe leads to more choices to make. If an entity seeks to reduce the free will of another entity, by imprisonment or some other means, they are stalling the evolution of consciousness of that entity. For example, if a human is physically imprisoned and their actions are reduced to that of a pet animal, where they only eat, sleep, and sit around thinking; then this opposes the the evolution of consciouness via more awareness of the Universe. If one is given books to read while imprisoned, this slightly increases the potential for awareness. Et cetera. If one seeks to reduce the free will of another, this indicates a malign agenda because they need the other's free will reduced for the purpose of control. And any type of control is contradictory toward developing greater awareness. Greater freedom of choice, and freedom of action, is conducive to developing more awareness.
Now this probably seems very simple and obvious to many of you, but as a skeptic I like to start with simple concepts and apply them to bigger scenarios in order to see what can logically be deduced. A good example is psychedelics. Why does government seek to prohibit use of say, psychoactive mushrooms? Because they are physically harmful? No, the LD50 (lethal dose) of most strains of psychoactive mushrooms is far, far beyond the recreational doses taken for the psychedelic experience. Then one can logically conclude that government does not want people obtaining the knowledge that can be gained from a psychdelic experience. They seek to limit awareness. Thus it can be concluded that the government, in this area, has a malign agenda.
Control, limit, protection. These are keywords in identifying a reduction of freedom, and thus a reduction of free will. While it seems necessary in our world to limit, control, and protect people, via laws, these laws are, in the Universal sense, diametric to developing greater awareness. It may be concluded by some, as several channeled sources espouse, that our world is inherently opposed to greater free will by its very nature. This has been called a service-to-self realm. If this is the case, then there must also exist a realm where greater awareness is encouraged, called a service-to-others realm.