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Don't blame Satan if things don't work out. It's God's plan right? (lemmy.ml)
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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

My take is that there is no free will, but that this fact is irrelevant and we're all better off just behaving as though we do.

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why are we better off behaving that way? Under that outlook, it seems like free will is a trap to hold people accountable for things they wouldn’t actually be responsible for.

[–] bramkaandorp@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

It's also very often used as an argument against rehabilitation in prisons:

If free will exists, then crime is a choice. If you choose crime, you are a bad person, and punishment is the only way forward.

If you commit the crime again, it's because the punishment didn't work, and/or because the person is simply bad, so a longer punishment is needed, and infinitum.

It's also used to justify the death penalty, which would not make any sense in a deterministic universe.