Free Will: It doesn't matter. Either it exists or it doesn't. If it exists, we can make our own decisions and change them however. If it doesn't, we wouldn't

Free Will: It doesn't matter. Either it exists or it doesn't. If it exists, we can make our own decisions and change them however. If it doesn't, we wouldn't know anyway. Because if free will does not exist, then even your choice of whether or not to believe in it is predetermined. I would have no choice on whether or not to post this, you would have no choice on whether or not to read it, no choice on whether or not to respond, etc. Turtles all the way down. Even if I were to type all of this up and then not post it, that's what I would do. I didn't have the choice to do that. It's just the sum of the stimuli working on me. All of which also does not have free will. But there is absolutely no way to test it either. No matter what test you can conceive, the test would be different by the very nature of being held at a different time. Let's say we put you in a room. And in this room, is a table, chair, and a marshmallow on a plate. You have to stay in the room for 30 minutes. You may eat the marshmallow or not. No reward or punishment is given depending on your actions. Then the next day, we do it again, to see if you make a different choice. If you make a different choice, does that prove you have free will? No. Because it is a different day and today the circumstances are different because yesterday you participated in the test, whereas yesterday when you participated in the test, it was the first time you had. That very experience informs your future decisions. The only way to truly test free will would be to rewind existence itself and see if you could make a different decision on that first test. So we can't know if it exists and the difference between it existing and it not existing is imperceptible. So it truly does not matter. And if that information makes turns you into a callous asshole who thinks the lack of free will absolves them of any blame, that's what was going to happen. Because there are those who will not think that and hold you accountable still because they believe in free will or believe that even still, we shouldn't be dicks to others.