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Originally Posted by Neapolitan
If I compared the difference philosophical difference between you and a rock, I couldn't bring up the idea you have free will and a rock doesn't? - because there's no way to prove it?
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You couldn't prove it as far as I can see... But I would consider that a rock has no will at all, and therefore has no free will.
I suppose you couldn't prove the existence of free will or pre-destiny... but either way I would say that free will is by far the better assumption to make. But if you're talking about history, than pre-destiny does sort of exist because we can know for sure what did happen to some extent, and then we can look farther back into history and say that that person had a destiny to do a certain thing that also happened in history.
For example maybe we can say that Germany was destined to lose WW1.