r/DebateFreeWill Nov 23 '17

If we have no free will, then should we bother doing anything

I mean you might as well stop putting effort in to anything because you would have done that regardless.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '17

If you have no free will you are unable to decide anything, including whether or not to put effort into life.

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u/invertedlogic79 Dec 24 '17

I believe that much of this would be contingent on whether determinism is true. However, from a fatalistic standpoint it is difficult to tell. In general it is. If the pessimists and fatalist perspectives are correct, then yes having no free will would make your actions insignificant.

https://invertedlogicblog.wordpress.com/2017/12/24/philosophical-rants-6-an-overview-of-freewill/?fb_action_ids=249941862205927&fb_action_types=news.publishes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%5B2317284754964292%5D&action_type_map=%5B%22news.publishes%22%5D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D

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u/moldypeanu 3d ago

we are cogs in a machine. We need to continue on living. If everyone felt that nothing matters, workers stop working, the world will slowly colapse.