In his book Free Will, Sam Harris not only states that "our wills are simply not of our own making", but furthermore if they were declared as fact by the scientific community they would "precipitate a war much more bellicose culture than that undertaken on the topic of evolution”. (Chapter 1) Harris' statement is surprising since he himself states: "... most people find these conclusions abhorrent" (Chapter 1) but it is Does it really matter whether we actually have free will or not? I think the existence of actual free will is superfluous. Most of us agree that, at the very least, we experience an illusion of freedom and therefore, for the good of our civilization, we must continue to live under this assumption precisely to avoid the outcome Harris describes about free will. James L. Christian writes in Philosophy: An Introduction to the Art of Wondering chapter on freedom by several like-minded philosophers, including B.F. Skinner. Christian writes that the idea of ​​freedom is obviously important: “…does the experience of freedom actually exist? Or does the feeling of freedom mask an illusion?” (257) Harris outlines what he believes are the two common assumptions about free will under which most people operate: “(1) that each of us could have behaved differently than we have behaved in the past , and (2) that we are the conscious source of most of our thoughts and actions in the present.” (Ch.1) This, at the most basic level, is what most people believe they possess; the ability to consciously make a choice and that choice has an observable and measurable effect on the universe (libertarianism). I agree with Harris that this is what most people chalk up to… middle of the paper… we traditionally understand it to be an illusion. But despite this, I believe that whether this is true or not is completely irrelevant to our daily lives. Our experience of free will is undeniable, whether it is an illusion or not, and to recant this and embrace some kind of determinism would shake civilization to its core. The sheer logistical scale of criminal justice system reform is not only daunting but also highly impractical. Until sufficient and convincing evidence to the contrary is presented, I firmly believe that companies should continue to behave as they are; assuming absolute free will as reality and acting on it regardless of whether it actually is or not. And if the time ever comes when popular notions of freedom are questioned and rejected by the scientific community based on hard evidence, the world will never be the same again...