The Danger of Being a Philosopher

Nearly everybody believes in free will until they meet arguments against it. The notion of free causality is not a contradiction in terms, he says. We all believe in it because we experience it just as we believe in thought,. There's a strong reductio I'd absurdum argument that if there is no free will then the following observed consequence follows: you do not praise or blame or counsel or command or reward or punish machines.