If free will doesn’t exist, does that ruin/render void the EA endeavour?
Can you say more about why free will not existing is relevant to morality?
My personal take is that free will seems like a pretty meaningless and confused concept, and probably doesn’t exist (whatever that means). But that I want to do what I can to make the world a better place anyway, in the same way that I clearly want and value things in my normal life, regardless of whether I’m doing this with free will.
Sure, I think that makes sense if we see EA as just another preference like any other, I think if we were 100% certain there was no free will though it would greatly reduce the moral force of the argument supporting EA (and any decision-guiding framework), as I couldn’t reasonably tell someone or myself, ‘you ought to do X over and above Y’.
Can you say more about why free will not existing is relevant to morality?
My personal take is that free will seems like a pretty meaningless and confused concept, and probably doesn’t exist (whatever that means). But that I want to do what I can to make the world a better place anyway, in the same way that I clearly want and value things in my normal life, regardless of whether I’m doing this with free will.
Sure, I think that makes sense if we see EA as just another preference like any other, I think if we were 100% certain there was no free will though it would greatly reduce the moral force of the argument supporting EA (and any decision-guiding framework), as I couldn’t reasonably tell someone or myself, ‘you ought to do X over and above Y’.