As far as I know, free will has nothing to do with choosing parents or sexual orientation, or anything like that, it has to do with choosing what you do and what you think. Yes, you have these parents, but what will you do about it? You can choose to react to this or even choose not to. But determinists say that you can't, that all the decisions you make are determined by everything in the world except you, in fact, you are the only thing in the world that has no real power over you.

The reality is that, even if free will is false, we would have to pretend that it is real, as determinists do, that despite believing that they have no freedom they continue to make decisions and continue to choose what to do and what not to do, and they continue becoming more or less responsible for their actions. Even society has to pretend that free will is true and has to assume that people are responsible for their actions, because if they leave a criminal free because "he is not responsible for what he did" but was determined to do what he did, then they know in advance that he is likely to commit an equal act again, and we cannot allow that. The reality is that if the world were deterministic nothing at all would change, people would continue to act the same, and do you know why? Do you know why we should pretend that free will exists even if it doesn't? Because it is the truth, and we can say what we want about it, we can refuse to accept reality, but we can do nothing to change it. That is what I think. It is like gravity, you can deny it, it can elaborate complex sophisms that seek to prove that it does not exist, you can convince yourself that it does not exist, and you will still have to deal with it, that way you know that something is real.

Causal determinism is true only with rocks and the like that have no will, but wanting to compare the human to a rock or something like that is simply refusing to see things as they are.

But it is only the opinion of another simpleton autodidact, who also sees that label as a good thing and not a bad thing.

Regards!