>>182266
if you don't have free will, then it doesn't matter if it's authentic or not, or even if you're okay with it being inauthentic
your emotional state would simply be the direct, immutable result or the initial conditions of the universe
there would be nothing to accept since either my reply, which was predetermined since the birth of the cosmos, will either lead to your acceptance or not

and thus your resulting belief would also be an immutable effect determined long, long ago

if you do have free will, then acting as if you don't is... kind of a waste? it would also be your problem, and something for others to take advantage of (´人｀)

and lesser in-between states don't really make much sense, since you would still have entities with agency to actually change things even within any framework of something trying to balance the scales