Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla View Post
I know, which is why people cannot be held responsible for their actions in a deterministic system.
I just explained why determinism is required to hold people responsible for their actions

No one ever acts, or chooses they merely react. Further, it goes against what we percieve to be true, that we make choices. To borrow a Calvinistic principle, and thereby undercut Rhy, Free Will should be accepted against determinism because of utility.
They can both be accepted because they are compatible with one another.

If we truly believe our choices are pre-determined by our environment we have no reason to act morally, or act at all.

Under a genuinely dterministic philosophy a human being would be unable to make choices and would simply grind to a halt.
That's fatalism, not determinism. They aren't the same thing