Here of course one starts with the assumption that there is an element of free choice entangled in our option to behavior in one way rather than another.
But, from my perspective, what we choose to do is always profoundly and problematically entangled in dasein. In fact, so entangled there is no realistic possibility that we can ever disentangle all of the thousands upon thousands of exitential variables that came to be our life. At least not such that we can pin down with any precision why we chose to do this rather than that.
And even if we could do this [discover our “true self”] there is no way [in a world sans God] to determine which moral values we come to predicate our behaviors on are neccesarily [objectively] the right values.
That, in fact, is when I challenge folks to take these relationships off the sky hooks and bring them down to earth. To discuss “freedom of choice” [or the lack thereof] in the context of abortion or some other issue where there are obvious conflicting narratives “down here” “out in the world” of actual human interactions.
And since I root moral narratives said to be true objectively in the “psychology of objectivism” – viewtopic.php?f=15&t=185296 – I make the further assumption that a belief in determinism is just another manifestation [embodiment] of this. I just don’t grasp how a belief in determinism can ever be compatible with free will unless it is expressed as “free will”.