The Lion Is Doing What He Wants to Do

I don't believe humans are acting in that kind of level of instinctive choice, where we're just reflectively reacting to the nature by which we were created. Because the lion is doing what he wants to do. He's doing in accordance with his nature. That to me, seems to reduce moral accountability to animal to the level of animal instinct. And so we just think that this definition of free will, or freedom according to the compatiblist, is an insufficient basis on which to rest human culpability or responsibility because they have no meaningful control over the nature or the sires an any given circumstance.

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