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cgod  ·  4597 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Do human beings have free will?
Your principals really don't matter if evolution has mandated that for our particular self perpetuating system to keep making copies of it's self it must be pushed forward by animal spirits. Even a nihilist wants the pigs in a blanket. To say
    If there is no free will, then its absence has no implications, by necessity.
does not remove the experience of pleasure or pain and if by realizing that free will does not or may not exist we can experience a life that is more pleasurable and less painful or even more painful and less pleasurable then there are implications of free will, by necessity.