I'm having trouble understanding libertarianism
As a simple example, let's say my boss asks me if I'm willing to work an extra shift, and I respond with "yes".
A libertarian believes that, even if we had full knowledge of my brain's chemical makeup and could somehow rewind the universe back to the moment my boss asked the question, we couldn't say with certainty that my answer would be "yes" every time.
And when you take quantum mechanics into account, this very well might be true. For difficult choices, maybe a single uncaused event within your mind is all it takes to set a butterfly effect in motion that eventually sways your decision one way or the other.
But my question is: why would we describe this as willful? Wouldn't it make more sense to call it arbitrary?
It seems to me like a truly indeterministic decision can never be completely logical: I could lay out all the reasons why the answer "yes" was the best choice, but if an alternate universe exists where I do the same with the answer "no", then it's no longer a logical choice: it's just an example of my brain's ability to fabricate a post-hoc narrative.