TheOtherDave comments on How would not having free will feel to you? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 24 June 2013 04:11:16PM 0 points [-]

Nothing obligates you to describe your behavior to others in language that makes them reluctant to trust you, even if you're a compatibilist. Admittedly, if you genuinely aren't trustworthy, then doing so is in others' best interests, since it causes them not to trust you... but if you're motivated to act in others' best interests in the first place, it's not clear to me in what sense you aren't trustworthy.

OTOH, if we're talking about the way you describe yourself to yourself, it may be worth asking whether your "worse-guy" self-description is more or less accurate than the less amoral, less calculating, better guy you previously made yourself sound like.