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===With ethics and morality=== Another topic of debate is the implication that determinism has on [[morality]]. Philosopher and incompatibilist [[Peter van Inwagen]] introduced this thesis, when arguments that free will is required for moral judgments, as such:<ref>{{cite book|last=van Inwagen|first=Peter|title=The Powers of Rational Beings: Freedom of the Will|publisher=Oxford|year=2009}}{{page needed|date=August 2021}}</ref> # The moral judgment that ''X'' should not have been done implies that something else should have been done instead. # That something else should have been done instead implies that there was something else to do. # That there was something else to do, implies that something else could have been done. # That something else could have been done implies that there is free will. # If there is no free will to have done other than ''X'' we cannot make the moral judgment that ''X'' should not have been done.
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