Question

John Locke explains his understanding of compatibalism with the following analogy: Imagine a man enters a room filled with everything that he could ever want or desire. Unbeknownst to him, the door locks shut as he enters, and he no longer has any method to exit the room. However, as it turns out, he never tries to exit and dies in the room without having once wanted to leave it. How is this like compatibalism

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John Locke explains his understanding of compatibalism with the following analogy: Imagine a man enters a room filled with everything that he could ever want or desire. Unbeknownst to him, the door locks shut as he enters, and he no longer has any method to exit the room. However, as it turns out, he never tries to exit and dies in the room without having once wanted.