Hello! Coming from r/philosophy.

So I liked the taught you put on this! It clearly took you a while to come up with the idea. Keep thinking, it’s good for your health!

Now, you say that acting randomly is against free will, but it’s technically wrong. Because you made the choice to act randomly. So you choose not to chose wich is still a choice. Thus free will.

The first assumption is also wrong, because if you are being directed externally you are still acting on free will, but not yours. You are acting based on someone else choice, so you are influenced by they’re free will.

For determinism to be real, it should mean that every single action you ever made was pre-determined by somthing else. I.E. God.

What you are describing is more cause and effect.

Cause: You like burgers more than salad.

Effect: You choose the burger.

But this is not determinism. It just a simple chain of events. If not, you where destined to choose the burger over the salad.

Now I don’t know if free will actually exist, so I don’t disagree with you. Problem is that you made two wrong assumptions to base your ipothesis on.