it's called hard determinism because it is hard to maintain belief in it in face of all the concerns against it
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so your argument against compatibilism is basically "no u"?
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what the fuck even is compatibilism besides "we need to punish people to control them so let's pretend they could have done anything differently than they did"
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there are plenty of compatibilists who are explicitly against retributivism. dennett is one
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okay. it's still handwaving that reduces to emotional appeals. it doesn't contain a coherent concept of what "free will" even is that doesn't rely on the concept of a soul that's somehow interactive with the world without being causally determined by it, because it can't
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maybe you should at least read the SEP article on compatibilism or something before going all "facts don't care about your feelings" on them
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the SEP article on compatibilism OPENS BY TALKING ABOUT HOW IT'S MAKING PROPOSITIONS ABOUT A PROPERTY IT CAN'T COHERENTLY DEFINE and segues into how really we're trying to make moral responsibility i.e. authority to punish compatible with determinism
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ok you read like two sentences of it and misread it even at that. 1. moral responsibility doesn't entail that punishment is justified. 2. compatibilism is sometimes expressed as the view that moral responsibility is compatible with determinism, as it states
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even if we accept such a definition and even if we erroneously believe that entails that punishment is justified, what makes someone capable of moral responsibility reveals interesting facts about agency that go beyond the moral implications of it
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the whole concept is incoherent and based solely in that our consciousness *feels like* it's somehow sitting in another magical place and making decisions based on an independent continuity of some kind, but spoilers, it isn't
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operating as if you had free will is optimal for a lot of purposes but should always be tempered with the awareness that it's horseshit
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