Clifford Longley answers (gated) the question of free will from a religious perspective:
We do not make entirely free choices; we go around, usually, acting in character. … This seems like very old wisdom: one can almost hear the voice of the psalmist. To become virtuous, learn the habit of acting virtuously; then your instinctive or impulsive actions will be in step with your virtuous character, and will be moral.
Omri Ceren raises an interesting point on the free will of communities as a whole:
We can, together, in the context of collective deliberation, design things that incline us to be more or less moral. That remains true even if our individual “decisions” to participate were in a sense unwilled, and if our future “decisions” will come entirely from our brains. Even if each of us cannot be more or less moral, we can together construct more or less moral institutions.
(Hat tip: Mark Vernon)
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