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# Is it immoral to keep free will from people if you had the power to grant it. # Is it immoral to keep free will from people if you had the power to grant it.
This is really two questions. Firstly, is free will good thing? Secondly, if it is a good this — is witholding it immoral? Is it even to possible for making decision on behalf of everyone to be moral or immoral? There's no way to know what people want, and you dont have the right to decide for them. To answer the first question, I think each person must come to their own conclusion, therefore it would be immoral to decide that the entire human race must have free will, and the second question is moot. This is really two questions. Firstly, is free will a good thing? Secondly, if it is a good thing — is withholding it immoral? Before I answer these questions, Is deciding things for other people moral or immoral? There's no way to know what people want, and I don't think you have the right to decide for them. To answer the first question, I think each person must come to their own conclusion. This means it would be immoral no matter what decision you make. However, from a purely consequentialist perspective, if we assume that most people think free will is a good thing, there is a net positive amount of "goodness" that results from forcing free will on everyone — even those who don't want it. Therefore, enforcing free will is a moral thing to do. The