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Originally Posted by Francisco
If you didn't have free will you wouldn't be absolved of anything because you wouldn't have been under any obligation, or have had any duty, to act to begin with.
Otherwise, Mantus, you are quite correct. Try deciding in the real world that you don't have free will, and therefore no responsibility, and see what happens.
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That's not really correct. One's responsibilities to society would remain. Moral and social delinquents would be treated as poor executions of our social program. So the obligations and duties to uphold morals, laws and social contracts would remain because the consequences haven't changed. One would still be held responsible, not because one made a choice but because one's actions still effect other people.