That is, they think all of their decisions were preordained, and then use this to claim that they can’t be held responsible for anything they do.

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    Dismissing a claim is not equivalent to asserting the negated claim.

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      Right, but lacking any physical evidence in either direction, is it not reasonable to then turn to purely rational explanations if we want to arrive at some sort of belief?

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        Why would we want to do that? Why believe things for which there is no rational basis?