No, I meant that you seemed confused by the fact that someone can think of 'predetermination' as compatible with choice, to the point that you seemingly felt that saying "your decision is predetermined and you have no choice in the matter" was an argument.. and you "don't see" how such predetermined choices are real choices.
It's fine if you state your position, but you bring confusion when you present it in terms of ignorance and failure to understand the other one's position.
Basically you spoke like I'd expect someone to speak who had indeed never heard of compatibilism, not merely disagreed with it.
you seemingly felt that saying "your decision is predetermined and you have no choice in the matter" was an argument
I was not trying to change entirelyuseless' mind. I was trying to figure out where exactly the disagreements between us are.
and you "don't see" how such predetermined choices are real choices
No, I do not see that. Is there anything wrong with that?
you bring confusion when you present it in terms of ignorance and failure to understand the other one's position.
LOL. Are you quite sure I am allowed to disagree with...
You're given the option to torture everyone in the universe, or inflict a dust speck on everyone in the universe. Either you are the only one in the universe, or there are 3^^^3 perfect copies of you (far enough apart that you will never meet.) In the latter case, all copies of you are chosen, and all make the same choice. (Edit: if they choose specks, each person gets one dust speck. This was not meant to be ambiguous.)
As it happens, a perfect and truthful predictor has declared that you will choose torture iff you are alone.
What do you do?
How does your answer change if the predictor made the copies of you conditional on their prediction?
How does your answer change if, in addition to that, you're told you are the original?