>>299471Alright; let's do this properly and not be screaming in bad faith
Assuming we use wiki definitions, the relevant observations are:
1. There is a chain of prior occurrences which causally determine each event.
2. An event cannot occur in absolute isolation because every event interacts with its environment for it to *be* an event.
3. Causal basis for events can be traced to natural forces such as gravity, entropy etc. calculated out to the edge of a field of reference.
4. As a system becomes more complex through the interaction of sub-systems and the root causes progressively more lengthy to detect and subject to mis-interpretation. Further, instruments to detect events and root causes begin to influence the subjects they detect - even in simple cases such as magnetism.
5. Cognition and will are events that occur in brain - or brain-like - physical systems.
Therefore:
For free will - the capacity for a human being to make a free choice - to be true one of those observations have to be false. I'll try and steelman them for example, by all means provide your own:
for 1. Any claim that something happened outside of a cause and effect chain is impossible - because it's equally impossible for the event to be observed without a cause and effect chain. If something happened, it had aftershocks. If there were no consequences, by what measure did an event happen?
for 2. Best I can do is the puppeteer argument - assigning some outside context force (the human will) agency over the physical world without any feedback. Even that breaks down because the outside context will is responding to events inside the context, or selecting options provided by the context because it cannot 'will' new ones into being through pure thought.
for 3. I can't figure out an argument to this one. Your decisions about what to do are built around your reward structure which is a consequence of genes and environment. You prefer certain foods because your intestinal parasites over however long secreted reward chemicals into your body to influence your sense of taste. You respond on image boards because your brain chemistry gives you pleasure to do so however obliquely. Those two factors themselves were forced on you externally by blind idiot chance, and from now until you die if you try to change one it's because I personally forced you to be aware of it, and whatever contrarian synapse circuit in your head is going to respond to it.
4. Refuting this is a textbook appeal to ignorance - "We can't detect the exact occurence of determinism in the brain, therefore it isn't real" and worse than wololo. The counterargument mockery of "We can't detect the presence of free will therefore it isn't real" is not equivalent, because it denies the observable facts of cause and effect.
5. "Thinking isn't real" for a poetic headline is an absurdism. For a true refutation, "Up", "Down" and so on are now capturable through brain interfaces for cripples and vidya gamers (but I repeat myself) - it's now possible to engineer mechanical responses to thoughts at this level, so "thoughts are just physics" is verified by not just theoretical science but now by actual engineering applications.
Now, if your contempt for pre-determinism is based specifically on the flavor that says "Some specific force with cognition set the universe in motion and decided everything that happened", that can hold water as a refutation, sure. Refuting Theistic interpretations of What Is was the foundation of scientific inquiry from the Mo Zi. But EITHER cause and effect determine everything OR there is free will, they are mutually incompatible by their basic characteristics.
>>299383 (OP)You had a bad start, a bad continuity and are currently rolling poorly in your prospects ahead of you - you fix that solely through help from charitable people and a lot of *hard work*. Not everyone is up to it, not everyone gets the help they need - do what you can to make your time on earth as pleasant as possible if the prospects just aren't there.