Free will debate

Libertarianism can be defined as a belief protecting free moral choice, denying determinism. Hard determinism can be defined as every action or event can be predicted in advance, eliminating the concept of free will and moral responsibility. Libertarianism is more plausible to me in the sense that I support  the concept of libertarians. Libertarianism is more plausible than hard determinism due to free will existing that is not determined or occurred randomly and that moral responsibility is a very important concept  to society.

Exploratory Breadth: Libertarianism explains more human behaviors than hard determinists do. Holding people morally responsible for their actions includes a wide range of positive and negative behaviors such as reactive attitudes, internal torment, praise and blame, punishment, and rewards. People choose to act freely making them morally responsible for their actions and they could only be held morally responsible for their free willed actions if the actions were undetermined. For instance, students make the choice of whether or not to do homework. If they were too tired or just being lazy, it was their decision, they were not forced to not complete or complete their homework. Hard determinists fail to address non-causal behaviors. If our actions were determined by antecedent events, then no one should be morally responsible for their actions.

Explanatory Depth:  Hard determinists explains the causes of human behaviors in greater detail than libertarians do. Determinists believe everything has a sufficient cause and that sufficient cause is a cause in which ensures the event in question will actually occur. Since the facts about the universe with the laws of nature imply the future state of the universe, determinists argue that every event has a cause and human actions are events. Libertarians have no epistemic justification on for the claim that people make libertarian choices.

Simplicity: Hard determinists have fewer parts making their main flaw impossible to conceal. although the world operates on deterministic ideas, evidence against determinists include the idea of people knowing they can change by common sense and if they do not feel motivated enough to change, they can act a different way. Libertarians feel that some events are determined by antecedent causes but not all. A desire needs action in order to occur, we need the final judgment of whether or not to act. Free will suggests that all options associated with the choice are possible while determinists believe there is only one possible result.

Conservatism: The theory of libertarianism is more consistent with our current common sense belief than the theory of determinism. Since no one knows how the brain works, we cannot provide reasons supporting the brain makes undetermined or determined choices. Libertarianism is the popularly accepted doctrine in society because it is easy to understand and it makes more sense to the majority of people. The theory of libertarianism is also more attractive to believe that each person is the maker of their decisions and of his or her own future.

Libertarianism and hard determinism are the most plausible explanation of the ultimate causes of human actions.

Libertarianism has much more explanatory breadth and simplicity, whereas hard determinism has a little more explanatory depth, and libertarianism is more conservative than hard determinism.

Therefore, libertarianism is the best explanation for the causes of human actions.