Free will Debate 

Jaak Rakfeldt

Libertarianism is the belief that people have complete free will to do whatever they want, so due to that if they do something bad they should be held morally responsible for it. However Determinism is the complete opposite, everything is pre determined so how could anybody be held morally responsible? Compatablism and incompatablism are the midway between Libertarianism and determinism.

             I believe that Libertarianism is how things should be. First of all I just find the idea completely ridiculous that everything is set in time already, even if it was you still should be held responsible for your actions because you consciously make them. The world isn’t all planned out, people make decisions every day that shape it and mold it like a ball of clay. The saying Life is what you make it, its true, because you have the choice to do whatever you want in life, destiny doesn’t exist.

            My explanatory breath is that I do believe that Libertarianism describes human behavior much more clearly than determinism does. Determinism fails to take in account that humans have urges and tendencies to do the wrong or right thing.

My explanatory depth is that Libertarianism describes human behavior quite deeply while determinism basically says that humans have no control of their actions.  Compatablism also goes into human behavior quite a lot.

            Libertarianism and compatablism go into detail about human behavior and morals while determinism and incompatablism only generally talks on its main idea. Libertarianism is much more complicated.

            Libertarianism is how most people on the planet think, otherwise we would have no jails because the general population would think that criminals have no control of their actions.

1. Libertarianism and compatablism,  are the most plausible explanations of free will.

2. Libertarianism has much more explanatory breadth and simplicity, whereas compatablism has a little more explanatory breadth,.

3. Therefore, Libertarianism is the best explanation of free will.