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by amanaplanacanal 504 days ago
If you assume that free will exists. I'm personally not convinced either way.
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Imagining that nothing is your fault is a nice way to avoid any uncomfortable feelings of accountability.

Unfortunately, your family, friends, and bosses aren’t going to be convinced when you try to explain that nothing is actually your fault.

You have free will to do what you want to do.

You do not have the ability to stop being you, the person who wants the things that you want. Even if you want to change yourself - and maybe succeed! - that desire for change is still part of being you. If you didn’t want it, you would have been someone else.

If free will doesn't exist then why are we talking about changing the environment? It's not like we can _choose_ to do so, after all.