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    It is not the case that Genuine freedom of will requires the ability to do otherwise under identical circumstances, as defended by libertarians from Reid to van Inwagen.

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    • 1.The ability to do otherwise under identical circumstances is metaphysically incoherent—identity includes all causally relevant factors.
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    • 2.Compatibilists show that moral responsibility aligns with determinism if freedom means acting on one's own desires/reasoning.
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    • 3.If libertarian free will requires uncaused choices, those choices seem random rather than free, undermining the original intuition.
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    • 1.Moral responsibility requires that an agent could have chosen differently; otherwise praise/blame are merely manipulative tools.
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    • 2.Determinism entails that given identical past states and laws, only one future is possible, eliminating genuine alternative possibilities.
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    • 3.Our deepest intuition about freedom is that we are genuine agents whose choices originate from us, not mere links in causal chains.
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