The Free Will Debate 

          Determinism is the belief that human beings have no free will. All of our actions and decisions are predetermined or decided by physical or physiological forces that occur very early in life. Due to the fact that we cannot alter the path that our lives can take, determinists believe that human beings cannot be morally responsible for their actions, whether good or bad.

           

            On the other hand, Libertarianism is the belief that human beings do have free will.   They believe that we have the ability to control and change our actions and we can consciously make choices that will alter the course of our lives.  Libertarionists believe that human beings have to take moral responsibility for their actions because they are able to make the decisions that can change the rest of their lives.

          

           Personally, I feel that the Libertarionists have a more plausible argument.  My reason for this is because there is no way that every single human beings life course is already determined before they are even old enough to start making there own decisions. Humans do have free will; any living person can make spontaneous decisions that will alter their life no matter what, for negative or positive. Also, the consequences of peoples spontaneous decisions will lead to new decisions based off of the situation, proving that humans determine there own life’s courses. Also, the path that someone is ‘supposed’ to take can sometimes be changed which, again I think proves that’s we do have free will. For example, I could live my whole life with a solid plan of becoming a doctor, lets says, and then something tragic in my life could happen which would throw my life’s plan off. 

            I think that Libertarionists have more explanatory breadth because a lot of human beings different behaviors come from spontaneous actions. Libertarianism explains more types of human behaviors than determinism does, and determinism would only explain predetermined factors, which I believe narrows the options down.

            I also think that Libertarionists have more explanatory depth because human behavior is so random and strange, I think that it can only be explained by spontaneous factors. Human behavior is not a science and is always changing, I think proving that libertarianism explains the causes of human behavior much better than determinism.

            However, I do think that determinists have more simplicity. This is because if all human beings actions are predetermined and they are not capable of making spontaneous decisions the fewer parts associated with them make it less likely there are concealed hidden errors.

           

            Libertarianism has more conservatism because the idea of spontaneous thinking and actions and that human beings have free will are more consistent with our current, common sense beliefs.

1.     Libertarianism and determinism are the most plausible explanations of how human choices are made.

2.     Libertarianism has more explanatory breadth, depth, and conservatism while determinism has more simplicity.

3.     Therefore, libertarianism is the best explanation of how humans make there choices and shows that human beings have free will.