Is free will an illusion?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is free will an illusion?". Your opponent's style: Socrates

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"Free will is an illusion" is a lazy assertion that misunderstands the very concept of will. Your argument assumes that because influences exist, choice vanishes. That's a fundamental conflation of causation with compulsion. If our actions are merely predetermined dominos falling, then moral responsibility is meaningless, and your own act of arguing this point is equally devoid of genuine conviction. Are you merely compelled to espouse this deterministic view, or do you *choose* to debate?[1][2]