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Originally Posted by filtherton
I don't think that determinism leaves out agency at all. I think it completely incorporates agency.
I don't think a lack of free will requires mindless intellectual or social conformity.
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Determinism, if followed to its logical conclusion, can have all the appearances of agency but ultimately cannot contain any choice. All action and inaction, all conformity or non conformity, etc. is the result of external forces.
There is no room for morality or ethics in a determined world... and that bothers me.