> 1) I think free will is a concept that has to be approached in a practical matter: as in we get better social outcomes if we assume people have free will. >

> 1) I think free will is a concept that has to be approached in a practical matter: as in we get better social outcomes if we assume people have free will. > The concept has utility. This is a thinly veiled argument from consequences. You're not the only one to do this, I see this from many people arguing in favor of free will. Edit: I would also question the utility of the concept compared to the alternative. Show me some hard numbers for what happens in a society constructed around the lack of a metaphysical free will, and then I may reconsider. (I suspect that this sort of society hasn't existed and may never exist, because free will is such a persistent illusion that it may as well be a phantom limb for most people. We're probably hardwired for it at some level, like the incessant drive for reproduction that most people have.)