i have bowed out of the free will debate going on in my tumblr dash, because I know from experience no matter how convincing my arguments and analogies feel to me they will not change anyone's mind (nor will the reverse happen) and it is tedious for my followers to see it.

but gosh it is An Effort to tell my 'but that's wrong, and I have a clever way to show how!' instincts to shut up and not reply.

(incidentally if you want to tell me all about how compatibilism is wrong, the dreamwidth comment section for this post is open and doesn't dump annoying arguments where anyone else has to see them)