Re: A Refutation of Determinism
I hope I don't sound smug or anything. But determinism and free-will, indeterminism, fate or what have you are entirely irrelevant to justice and morality. I mean, come on. What if I didn't know I had free will? Would I be responsible then? Or what if I was wrong about having free will, would I no longer be resonsible? Plenty of people have played Nintendo and not known the source code, and knowing it would't have affected their play in the least.
Your argument really goes like this
"Responsibility must exist because I feel responsible"
"If I didn't have control over all of my actions then I wouldn't be responsible"
"Therefore I have control over all my actions"
It's a reductio ad absudum that proves it's own premise.
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