Free Will 3

Free will implies that we have the ability to choose something or to not choose something regardless of the circumstances. Determinism is the idea that something causes every event, and therefore what we do is decided by prior events and not what we freely choose. Therefore this paper will argue that one theory cannot exist where the other does and they are therefore incompatible. If free will does exist then determinism does not. As I will prove that determinism does exist, so free will does not. There are many kinds of determinism and I will use these to prove that it does exist.
Different kinds of determinism can sometimes conflict with each other, however this does not mean that determinism is not a valid theory. It does not matter what you believe is the causative agent for the determinist, the one thing that all types of determinism have in common is that there is no room in them for free will to exist. If you are a determinist you may believe that our believes, behaviours and desires are genetically imprinted into us, or you may believe they can be put down to a more specific cause such as our environment. A determinist may believe that it is the cultural environment in which we were raised. An example of this would be a person who was raised in a Muslim household and therefore does not eat pork.
By arguing that determinism overrides free will it can also be argued that if determinism exists then we are also free from moral responsibility. If what we do is because of a causative agent that we have no control over then surely we can not be morally responsible for our actions. This alone proves that free will and determinism are not compatible because you can’t be morally responsible for your actions at the same time as you are free from moral responsibility, therefore you can not believe in determinism and free will at the same time.
People who are compatabilists, those who believe that free will and determinism are not mutually exclusive and therefore...