Compatibilism Vs Determinism

A guy wearing a ski mask walks into a grocery store an opens fire on everyone within sight. Did that man choose to pull the trigger, or did a past event cause him to do it without any choice in the matter? Having free will is what make us who we are for we choose what we do on a daily basis. However, some people believe that we don’t have a choice. These people are determinists and they believe that every event is caused by a previous event. The problem of free will started because there are people out there that are trying to prove determinists that they are wrong and that we do indeed have free will. Who is right? Who is wrong? The answer to that question has yet to be discovered, however, everyone is titled to his or her own beliefs. I,
On one side you have determinists, and on the other side you have indeterminists. Indeterminists believe that not every event is determined by past events. While there are two sides to the free will problem, we also have a middle ground. Compatibilists believe that determinism is true but also that our actions can be free as well. We also have incompatablists that believe that if determinism is true, then no one has free will. There are indeed many stances on the problem of free will, but again, who is right? Also, do any of these stances take into account religion? Having faith in a god, god’s, an afterlife, reincarnation, etc. could indeed be the difference between having a free will or not. For example, one who believes in a god should have a higher chance in believing in a free will than those who do not. The reason for this is that having faith in a superior being is also having the belief that a superior being would not make our choices for us, but let us choose for ourselves. It makes no sense that a greater being would put us here for us not to have the ability to make our own
Personally, the right view is that there is indeed such a thing as free will for without it society would crumble as people stop having faith as well as personal accountability. Why would anyone want to do the right thing if they didn’t have a choice to do the right thing? Also, without free will one loses the reason to live. Living without a choice in what you do, who you love, where you go is living without reason. If everyone’s lives were planned out from day one there would be no real completion in this world. There would also be no point in having faith for why would a greater being that’s supposed to be almighty put people into bad situations when they could have made it so everyone was happy and on the same level as everyone else. This is why free will exists, for without life itself would not be life at