The ability to choose from among alternatives makes a host of other distinctively human capacities possible—creativity and problem solving, love and relationships (robots do not love), even rationality itself (if our minds are preprogrammed to hold an idea, then it is not a rational decision). “Unless human beings are morally responsible,” says law professor Jerome Hall, “justice is only a mirage.” Unless humans have free will, we will not develop a sense of identity or self-worth (because everything I do is really the work of unconscious, automatic forces). 9
