Would you like God's Driective Will or His Permissive Will

At the risk of being branded a troll, I'll disclose now that I'm agnostic, but this is still a very interesting question to me anyway. If you'll permit this exploration of your idea (because my thought isn't "incompatible" with the notion that it's "God" and not "just a complex system" doing the "behind-the-scenes" work), suppose the universe in its entirely worked as you suggest -- it can both permit things to happen or it can stop them from happening. I'm a real fan of the "permissive" approach -- you learn more from screwing something up yourself than being lectured by a dozen others about it. Granted, there are people who won't learn from a mistake no matter how many times they make it (people who cheat on their spouses, habitual thieves, etc.), but they're unlikely to learn from having a good, hard slap from the world around them (or a god) anyway. Being "told what to do" sucks -- I'll be happier with the path *I* choose, even if that path sucks, than I would be with a path someone else choses for me. I recognize there's lots in my world and my life that I'm not in control of, but I prefer to choose everything I can than have things just handed to me.