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Agency, however, is not the same thing as Free Will. Agency merely means that the mechanisms that determine "a choice" occurs inside a person, it doesn't mean they're exerting any sort conscious control over said "choice."
And if you are gonna argue for Free Will, I'm disengage at this point.
It’s, frankly, anti-Marxist thinking. The argument you are arguing against reminds me of Calvinism at its core, where people are born good or bad (fascist or anti-) and nothing they are exposed to will change their destiny of not getting into heaven (or achieving liberation in our case)
The infamous unconditional election doctrine of Calvinism is that it doesn't actually matter if you're good or bad, God just chooses to save people independent of any sort of human merit because no human action can one-sidedly change what the Sovereign chooses, and none of us are "worthy" anyway. We're all "totally depraved" sinners and the ones who escape perdition escape it due to divine mercy, not because we deserve to, or so Calvin said.
Basically, Calvinism is even more misanthropic than people give it credit for.
I agree that his point is anti-Marxist though, because we plainly do have conscious control. People argue about free will in such silly ways. To me it's the second least-serious of the traditional big arguments in philosophy after moral realism.
I appreciate the refresher on Calvinism. I haven’t really thought seriously about it in well over a decade, as I’ve cut out all the conservative Christians in my life
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