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    It is not the case that An action can be inevitable and yet still be a free action.

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    • 1.Genuine freedom requires the ability to do otherwise, such that if an action is inevitable, no alternative was ever genuinely available.
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    • 2.A desire unconstrained by external causes is insufficient for freedom if the space of possible choices was always causally or logically closed.
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    • 3.Compatibilist accounts that define freedom via internal desire-satisfaction conflate the phenomenology of choice with its metaphysical conditions.
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    • 1.Frankfurt-style cases notwithstanding, Peter van Inwagen's consequence argument establishes that inevitability entails the agent could not have initiated any different causal chain.
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    • 2.If an agent could not have initiated a different causal chain, moral responsibility—which the supporting argument implicitly preserves—is undermined alongside libertarian freedom.
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    • 1.Freedom of action is distinct from freedom of will.
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    • 2.An action is free when the agent has a powerful desire to perform it, the agent's will is not causally determined by anything external or by pathological factors within the agent, and the inaccessible alternatives are alternatives the agent has no desire to pursue or has some desire not to pursue.
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