Tonya Sh

“The idea of determinism, he said, is that everything that happens, and every decision or action you make, is "causally inevitable." Why? Because everything is caused by something else: a preceding action, event or situation. [...] He said people can only act as they actually do. A murderer, for example, will inevitably murder because his childhood, his genes, his brain chemistry, his socioeconomic situation, his fear of rejection, the convenient proximity of a defenseless woman on a dark street corner, will all lead him, inevitably, to murder.
Someone said, quite passionately as I recall, as if we were speaking of a specific murder and not a hypothetical one, "But he chose to murder! He had free will!"
The bearded man said he himself was a "hard determinist" and therefore did not believe in free will. [...]
If free will doesn't exist, if all your decisions and actions are inevitable, are you still required to apologize for them?”
― Liane Moriarty, Here One Moment