Free Will Debate

The free will debate is a conflict between two  sides, libertarianism and hard determinism.  The libertarianism idea believes that  people have free will and have a choice in the actions they make and choose they're own path in life.. The hard determinism idea believes that people have no free will and no moral responsibility. Determinism believes that the actions we choose to make come from our past psychological and physical events.

In my belief libertarianism is more plausible than hard determinism. Every choice a person makes affects their future and even if they tend to do one action rather than another based on their passed expieriences it is still their own choice at the end. Our expieriences from our past have an influence on our decisions but we have the final say on what that action will be.

Explanatory Breadth- Both libertarianism and hard determinism explain why we choose to do certain actions.  Some people make certain bad choices because they want to and others, like young  children or people with mental illnesses, make them because they don't know any better and dont understand the consequences.

Explanatory depth- Although the idea that events in our lives cause us to do certain actions is somewhat true, hard determinists overlook the fact that we have the final choice. Even if from past expierience we lean on a certain action more than another we can always choose what goes against our past expierience.

Simplicity- Hard determinism has more simplicity. Those who agree with hard determinism just have to say that an action some one has made was already made for them and that they had no free will in their choice. Those who agree with libertarianism have to go in depth and explain why a person chose to do something and what made them chose it.

Conservatism- Libertarianism is more conservative that hard determinism. More people believe that they make their own decisons and that there isnt any other factor but their ownself in the decisions they choose to make. People like to believe that they have the ability to control their own lives.

1.     Libertarianism and Hard Determinism are the most plausible explanations of free will.

2.      Libertarianism has much more explanatory depth and conservatism, whereas Determinism has more simplicity, and Libertarianism and Determinism both have explanatory breadth.

3.     Therefore Libertarianism  has more free will