<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Dish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/author/sullydish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[How Free Will Is Like Your&nbsp;Birthday]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Brian Earp and John Bargh <a href="http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2012/03/the-will-is-caused-not-free/" target="_self">think</a> we should celebrate the decisions we have made even if&#0160;free will doesn&#39;t exist:</p> <blockquote> <p>It seems that people do not possess a consistent belief in free will so much as they strongly wish to take credit for the good things they are and do (regardless of whether they caused them), and to distance themselves from the bad things (even if they caused them). Evidently, the belief in free will is not principled, but socially strategic in nature.&#0160;So what, then, if one’s will is not ‘free’ of internal causation?</p> </blockquote>]]></html></oembed>