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"My arguments were merely a sort of reductio ad absurdum type argument."
In that light, I can see why you chose the examples you did.
You mention fate, I ask what about inevitability. If you posit that any set future, regardless of what happens between now and then invalidates free will, would not the theoretically assured destruction of our planet by the Sun eventually 'dying' be a set and determined future? Does the sun's eventual failure invalidate free will? If you posit that we will move beyond this rock to colonize others before that point happenes, I ask if the eventual heat death of the universe then invalidate free will?
This is, to an extent, my own reductio ad absurdum, but it is valid. Simply because an event is set and unavoidable it does not follow that free will does not exist. We still make our choices, we still have free will within our own scope. Whtether or not our free will matters on the cosmic scale is only important in arguments such as this.
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