Determinism is Liberating?
But there’s something liberating about it, too. It’s a reason to be gentler with yourself, and with others. For those of us prone to being hard on ourselves, it’s therapeutic to keep in the back of your mind the thought that you might be doing precisely as well as you were always going to be doing – that in the profoundest sense, you couldn’t have done any more. And for those of us prone to raging at others for their minor misdeeds, it’s calming to consider how easily their faults might have been yours. (Sure enough, some research has linked disbelief in free will to increased kindness.)
from The Clockwork Universe: Is Free Will an Illusion?
see also
references
- Burkeman, Oliver. `The Clockwork Universe: Is Free Will an Illusion?` The Guardian, 27 Apr. 2021, [https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/27/the-clockwork-universe-is-free-will-an-illusion].