chievement, so we would have to totally revise the ways in which we construct our identities and self-concepts.
However, a problem arises at this point. If hard determinism is correct, and has been all along, it is possible that we are not free to believe in it. It may be that we are determined (in the philosophical sense) to believe in soft determinism and moral responsibility. If this were not the case, why would we so intuitively gravitate towards soft determinism? Why is it so psychologically comfortable for us, and, above all, why do we struggle so mightily to try to logically substantiate such a flawed
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