Giles comments on Separate morality from free will - Less Wrong
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As I see it, there are:
I have used one taboo word here: "best". But we'll assume everyone at least broadly agrees on its definition (least death and pain, most fun etc).
People can then start applying other taboo-able words, which may arbitrarily apply to one of the above concepts, or to a confused mixture of them.
So asking whether morality is about "doing the right thing" or "intending to do the right thing" or "oughtness" is just going to lead to confusion - different people comparing one fuzzy macro against another.
The connection to free will as I see it comes from 2 - punishing an agent's actions won't achieve anything if the agent lacks sufficient free will. Again, asking what its connection is to morality etc. is probably a question which should be dissolved.