You are a fool. An absolute fool.
And you've been reported twice now. Would suggest you put the fire out and play nice.
The reality that if 'something could have been otherwise' something would have made it so, but the fact of the matter is that influence/condition/state which could have made it otherwise wasn't present at the time and so it didn't happen.
Well, then by your definition, we have no free will.
I'm more inclined to buy the Mirriam-Webster version rather than your specialized one, since as much as anything is real in this reality I appear to make a choice between alternatives.
That choice is obviously not uninfluenced. But I do give every appearance of making it.
If we have no free will, as you say, how would that relate to moral culpability?
That's what I'd like to know.
Your version of reality seems to absolve us of all responsibility, since by definition we have no ability to respond.