I wish I could be a compatablist, but I'm not. I don't know where I stand. Perhaps I just don't believe in either theory. I wish that I could believe that everything happens for a reason, but we have the choice to change it, but if I take each theory wholly, then it simply can't be done.
Maybe I am a determinist. The more I think about it, I do believe that everything happens for a reason. I think that we are meant to live our lives exactly how we do. I guess it is just weird to think that we have no say in what happens in my life, and that it is all planned out. So I still stick to my position as an incompatablist, but I don't really like the theory of determinism in its entirety.
It's important to remember that desires and degrees of likability have no value in actuality. "I don't want to obey the laws of gravity," and "I don't like that water is made of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom," are examples of these. No matter how much I want something to not be the case, that doesn't change that it is the case. I have to obey gravity regardless of my desire. No matter how much I dislike it, water is made of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.
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