> Any attempt to persuade is an implicit acknowledgement of free will. > But your if-then exhibits no independent action. Attempts at persuasion don't imply f

> Any attempt to persuade is an implicit acknowledgement of free will. > But your if-then exhibits no independent action. Attempts at persuasion don't imply free will, they just change the input to the if-then in a downstream deterministic process. If bash script A calls bash script B with a command line flag to make it follow an alternate behavior, nothing is implied about the free will of either bash script.