Do you believe in free will?

Why couldn't something happen for no reason?

>People act like you can use your free will to choose to be fine with being circumcised.

I wish it was that easy to be fine with not having a big tidd chubby 5'1" gf with my powers of (((free will)))

>If you give up on free will you have given up on morality.

I don't agree. You can still contend an action is moral or immoral, regardless of whether a person actually could have done otherwise. The compatibilists already believe this (although I think they're wrong and compatibilism is bullshit, but it is the prevailing view among academic philosophers).

To be clear--I think compatibilists are right about the idea that one could contend something is right or wrong even if the person who did it couldn't have done otherwise. I just think they're wrong about the fact that someone who couldn't have done otherwise still somehow had something worth calling "free will" anyway.

Isn't it contradictory to think that there was a first action if everything has a cause

Actions and reason are kinda interchangeable in that regard. Actions caused by actions caused by reasons caused by reasons, there's not really a difference

Also if determinism tru: I can predict lottery numbers.

Known unknowns preclude your sarcastic attempt at an argument, fag. muh physical law is an abstract model that wouldnt mean anything here. Learn to communicate

This position (that free will isn't a thing whether determinism is true or not) is called hard incompatibilism.

>Also if determinism tru: I can predict lottery numbers.

I don't see your reasoning here.

This is why I hate philosophy threads on r9k because there's always some chode gobbling sophist like this