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# Is it immoral to keep free will from people if you had the power to grant it.
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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. Thus, from a deontological perspective, I think each person wants different things and it would be immoral no matter what decision you make. The questions remains however, of whether it is immoral to not do a moral thing. I think that depends of the effort of the moral action and the amount of "goodness" that the actions creates. For example, it would not be immoral to not volunteer to pick up trash for 3 weeks nor to not pick trash on your walk home. But if you could remove all trash by clicking your fingers, it would be immoral to not do so. Thus the answer to your hypothetical, from a consequentialist perspective, depends on where you draw the line. In this hypothetical, since there is no effort required, the answer depends only on whether granting free will to everyone is a moral thing. I think that wihout free will, we are not true individuals |