There’s no freedom in having to do something but you’re also not free to choose your wants.

Maybe it’s better to just live and let life happen instead of thinking about what could’ve been. What ever happened is the only thing that could’ve happened.

  • Ezergill@lemm.ee
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    18 hours ago

    I wasn’t arguing for free will, I was arguing against your argument, and, as you can see, it is flawed.

    When it comes to free will - in a situation where you have to make a choice it doesn’t matter that post-factum you can say that you couldn’t have chosen otherwise due to internal and external factors, what matters is that in the moment you still have to make that choice, and no one (oftentimes not even you) can really predict the outcome.

    Also, determinism is flawed simply because quantum mechanics exists, which is decidedly indeterministic and deals with probabilities, and there are phenomenons where it affects things on a macro scale.