Believers in free will like to claim that their view of humans is warmer and more dignifying than that of cold, mechanistic determinists. But we’d probably treat people with more warmth and dignity if we accepted that they ultimately did not choose to be who they are.
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People understand determinism just fine, it's just that anti-free will types refuse to simply acknowledge that viewing humans as deterministic simply has this effect. You might believe in some technical way nihilism and determinism are exclusive. People simply don't act this...
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...psychology has illuminated repeatedly that a feeling of control and autonomy is crucial to good mental health, while feeling out of control breeds nihilistic depression.
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