That’s right, and it may be said that every action is predetermined, by way of making a special simplification - yet it is not the action that ever mattered (that is, “had eternal consequence”) but the way “something” within being is shaped, formed, chiseled by encountering and experiencing those predeterimined, agreed-upon actions. You will find this insight figuratively present in this same essential form, as early as Plato.
If the arch-system is perfect, a kind of “training course with obstacles”, all possible combinations of actions and situations are “hashed out” simultaneously, and all possible experiences - experienced in parallel.
I think the MWI in nonsense, but even in this universe we could say that most if not all moral issues are played out over time.
Thing is, it matters what you do for your own good.
If you make a choice and another you in a parallel universe makes a different choice, then your choice has determined that. How do you then know that another you has not made your choices for you? If there is choice ‘a’ being made, and choice ‘b’ in a given other universe, then in another abstains ‘c’, then in an infinite amount of universes there are an infinite amount of a,b,c, choices being made. In that case you have not determined anything by your choice, the decision is made infinitely and in all cases.
You see choices don’t matter ~ in the great scheme of things, they only matter to you, to who you want to be.
I don’t think it doesn’t matter; it means that in the world in which you did something wrong, you did something wrong. In other words, it matters in that world.
That certain humans cease to matter naturally to themselves is only a prelude to their extinction.
We can no longer speak of humans, we have to speak of different species. Those who naturally assume the responsibility for meaning-creating, and those that expect meaning to arise independently of them. The next step in evolution is the divide of these categories into a definitive master-slave arrangement for the age to come.
Religion is the form of mediation from master to slave. Labor is the mediation from slave to master. In fact it has always been so. But in our age, the distinction has nothing to do with coercion anymore. It is only ones inclinations that bring either mastery or slavery.
What you’re getting at here is that if an act or an event or something of that nature is inevitable or unchangeable, then it doesn’t matter.
If you believe that the world is fully deterministic, then all the horrible things that have happened in this world were inevitable and unchangeable; you wouldn’t need to subscribe to a multiple-world (or infinite-worlds) view to argue the point: the fact that 6 million Jews were slaughtered in Hitler’s holocaust doesn’t matter, according to your reasoning, because, if you believe in determinism, it was inevitable.
What I’m pointing out is that there’s a difference between something being inevitable or unchangeable and its being not important. Even if the holocaust was inevitable, it was still horrible, it still mattered. If there are infinite worlds such that in some world, 8 million Jews were slaughtered instead of 6 million, that would be even worse, hardly unimportant.
So who makes the first move? Lets imagine an action in ours or any other universe creates other universes, for all we know one of our choices may affect a denumerable amount of other universes.
In which case the choices we make are of paramount importance.