So I dont believe in free will ,through a combination of experience and events in my life(most to do with leaving religion) however like most, I recognise the need for the concept of free will, as artificial as it may be

But where to draw the line. Obviously, even for people that believe in free will, where they draw there line is different among each other e.g across cultures, generation and among individual, but what do you do when you know that line is just artificial.

For example, alots people say that trauma doesn’t excuses abuse, only contextualise, it but if you have statical evidence that a large or even most of abusers have been abused/been through a traumatic event that is by defined an excuse.

  • Somebody_Else@feddit.onlineEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I dont think so, everything I have or will ever do is something that has been set in motion long before I was ever born.

    So if I tell you to raise your hand, you either chose to raise your hand, or chose not to.

    What I am arguing that it’s all predetermined, that yes which hand you choose to raise is not a choice your making but the dominio effect of the entire universe, that you choosing to use your hand as example is not a choose, that your believe in free will is not a choose as much as my lack of believe in it isn’t my choice. How you worded that, the language you used, you seeing and reply to this post, the platform your on etc etc……

    This is an entirely meaningless argument. Its impossible for anybody to determine that I would chose to use my hand, or if I would chose to raise my hand.

    The distinction between if I think I chose to raise my hand vs if Its really pre-determined is meaningless, I still make that choice.

    Sorry, I worded that incorrectly. I guess what I am trying to say that someone who abuses another because of Schizophrenia isn’t anymore to people than someone who doesn’t have a mental illness and has still abused someone. In both cases we could do what we can to stop the abuse but doesn’t mean we are assigning blame to anyone.

    In both cases we blame the person who made the choice to abuse somebody else