Sure, if you have a burn patient on the edge of death, probably hold off on telling them that their family didn’t survive. But otherwise, it’s usually good to go with the truth, especially about free will—faith can sustain, but nothing devastates as surely as the discovery that your deeply held faith has been misplaced all along. We claim we’re rational beings, so go and prove it. Deal. But “Toughen up, there’s no free will” isn’t remotely the point.
