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Harvard’s Pinker figures that we can simultaneously believe in a fully caused human being and an ethical system that holds people responsible for their actions by imagining ethics as a “game” that it is useful for us to play for social purposes. In How the Mind Works, he writes that “the ethics game treats people as equivalent, sentient, rational, free-willed agents, and its rules are the calculus that assigns moral value to behavior through the behavior’s inherent nature or its consequences. Free will is an idealization of human beings that makes the ethics game playable.” The results of that game, he concludes, “can be sound and useful even though the world, as seen by science, does not really have uncaused events.”