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Yes but we don't need to entertain that hypothetical because I have objective proof that I don't have free will, because I know I want to fuck certain supermodels. Yet I am not and have not, indeed, I know with absolute certainty that unless some external (i.e. deterministic) factor changes the circumstances that it will remain impossible related to social groups, physical proximity, the kind of clothes I wear, employment opportunities that will affect social opportunities, and even vernacular and memes within the relevant social set that will make courtship easier.
Unless I can fuck the supermodels I want to without some kind of deus ex machina - how can free will be said to exist.
Full Disclosure: I actually don't give a flying fuck about the concept of "free will" or "determinism" whether I die having freely chosen to work as a wagecuck at Walmart rather than at Wendies seems to make the interest in Free Will a moot point. I am only interested in the deterministic vs. free-will argument in as much as there has to be some sort of wriggle room for changing of social class, which I think is the only sort of exercise of free will of sufficient magnitude for me to care. I am not saying that the ultimate purpose of life is to be rich or to be part of the elite, but only that if it is not a possibility then fuck Free Will, you might as well say the universe is deterministic. To put it another way: If I don't have the choice and agency to exercise that choice so I can choose to be rich, or choose to be an ascetic - then I don't have free will. I'm not asking to change history, I'm not asking to affect the lives of millions.