Kindly comments on The deeper solution to the mystery of moralism—Believing in morality and free will are hazardous to your mental health - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kindly 14 October 2012 02:16:34PM 11 points [-]

Some readers will experience a sense of outrage. Then remind yourself: There’s no free will.If you believe the reminder, your outrage will subside; if you’ve long been a convinced and consistent determinist, you might not need to remind yourself. Morality inculpates based on acts of free will: morality and free will are inseparable.

They're perfectly separable. My hypothetical outrage is based on seeing a heinous monster not get what's coming to him. If the heinous monster's actions were in principle predictable if we looked at the entire state of the universe ten years prior, then... so what?