Due to all of the experiences you carry, you had no choice. You were forced to post by the all of the causes pushing you through your life. This particular post will itself become a cause of another action and that will cause another and so on ad infnitum.
It is sad that you actually believe that, I was not compelled to post. I could have walked away or not it was a conscious choice to post.
I don't recall which two philosophers were arguing this point, but the debate was paused as the day ran out to be continued on the following morning.
When the Determinist proponent arrived back the following morning, the Free Will Proponent was still in the auditorium and he said that since he had chosen to stay in the audtorium all night, that proved that he had a free will.
The Determinist replied that this only reinforced the evidence of determinism since this showed beyond doubt that he was forced to stay in auditorium to prove his point. He could not have done anything else.
So goes the argument. There is nothing that we can do that can prove free will or determinism in a philosophical way. It is only how each of us as individuals view the act of making a choice that will carry the day , but only carry the day for each individual in his own heart.
It really doesn't matter since the act of making a choice, whether it is free will or determined by cause effect, is exactly the same act conducted with exactly the same steps.
Free will would indicate absolute responsibility while determinism would indicate absolute lack of responsibility. Since we're discussing this on a political message board, which political party seems more apt to embrace free will and with it responsibility and which one seems more apt to embrace determinism and with it no responsibility?
