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by lordlimecat
2750 days ago
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I have a hard time understanding how people disbelieving in free will do not just devolve to fatalism. Why bother discussing it as if it matters, when it's all predetermined? Why do people having the argument seem to assume in their lives that free will exists, exhibited by their pursuit of their wants? |
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Because personally, I do find it quite enjoyable.
All my decisions and everything I do being predetermined doesn't change the fact that I will still experience it and can enjoy and want things.
Determinism doesn't make the things that you experience and the things you choose any less real, they happen. Similarly, Nihilism doesn't mean you give into depression because there is no morality and the universe doesn't give a shit about you, quite the opposite, you can do what you enjoy precisely because the universe doesn't give a shit about you, you can do what makes you happy, not what society things ought to make you happy.
In short; because it's enjoyable and the alternative is not, even in the face of determinism.
>Why do people having the argument seem to assume in their lives that free will exists, exhibited by their pursuit of their wants?
Because ultimately the answer doesn't matter and having free will is a comfortable illusion. Humans like being in charge, especially being in charge of themselves. Since science still owes us a definitive answer (although IMO the current state seems to lean in favor of determinism), people choose free will over determinism.
Similarly, people choose to believe that inherent, objective morality exists, that a higher power protects them, etc. It's comforting. Reality is lovecraftian.