Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20180327004110/@comment-35118849-20180409044824

1) The ant example is of limited usefulness because an ant is not sentient.  No one would suggest an ant is capable of making a moral choice.

Here's an example using people. A man stabs another man with a sword. The stabber has caused an event to happen and his actions have a moral component determined by the circumstances of the stabbing. I think Alonon believes either the events of individual people's lives are insignficant (so the stabbing doesn't matter) or that everything is inevitable (so there's nothing he can do). Can you use this example, or a variation, to explain your theory and where you want Sierra to take the story (or not take the story)? Are you saying you don't want Sierra to say the universe must be indeterministic in order for life to have meaning and for people to be capable of making moral choices?

2) If an event is predetermined, it is predetermined by someone or something, whether that is a being (God) or the nature of the universe.  For our discussion, I don't think it matters exactly why events have been predetermined, just whether or not they have been.