Determinism: A Comparative Analysis

In the sceniro, a friend explains that he and his partner are extreamly happy in there new long-term relationship. They explain that the key to their relationship, and thus their happiness, is that they let their partner control everything that they do. The following must explain if this relationship uses freedom or determinism as the basis of their relationship. Although the actions of both partners are determined by the other, I do not believe this scenario has anything to do with determinism. However, to properly answer this question we must first define determinism and its relationship with free will. Determinism is the position that for every event there exist conditions that could cause no other event, exept for that specific event which

This is opposite of what determinism claim. Determinism, as it is taught in ITT-Tech textbooks, claims that moral judgements are pre-determined, and there exist no other course of action. For example, those who believe in determinism would argue that I did not decide to write this paper of my own free will, but that it was predermined that I would write it, and therefore, I wrote this paper. However, I believe this to be just another groundless argument that deflects individual responsibility onto something or someone else. If a person's actions or moral judgements are predetermined, then it presuposes that a person does not have the free will to do something else. If this were true, then we can not justifiably hold someone accountable for their actions, thus, it requires us to abandon the notion of individual responsibility, accountability, and achomplishments (perhaps in our country we already

The event (their relationship) does not exist because of pre-conditions that were set in place beforehand. Rather, the conditions on their relationship exist because of a choice, an agreement that they entered into. Both partners in the relationship have decided, of their own free will, to allow the other person to “control everything”. One can look at it as no different then obiding by a vulentary contract, of which both parties willingly agreed