I Can't Tolerate Stupidity

At the Volokh Conspiracy, Tyler Cowen describes the experience of a 14 year old girl named Yana at a CTY camp [the sort of camp where kids go to take classes that are harder than anything in their own schools--ed.]:

Yana, who is fourteen, took a class on the philosophy of mind. She just started another class on the French and Russian Revolutions. This is her third year there, she calls herself a CTY addict. The year before she did Latin. This time we had her for two days between sessions. I heard about modal logic, Newcomb's Paradox, and mind-body reductionism. Yana now knows why she believes in free will, and why she doesn't want to be an undergraduate philosophy major. She loves CTY, and so do we. It also seems that they enforce curfews, strictures against drugs, and so on. The instructors are smart and enthusiastic. Highly recommended, if you ask me. [Emphasis mine.]

Huh? What the fuck is Tyler smoking? [Whatever they've confiscated from CTY-ers--ed.] This girl should buy a clue! Free will; puh-lease. Doesn't she know that free will is an impossibility ruled out by the laws of trascendental logic, because the phenomenological universe of space and time is necessarily either deterministic or indeterministic, meaning that it is governed either by discrete formulae from which all outcomes can be determined, or else it is governed by randomness at the quantum level, and neither scenario is compatible with free will? Doesn't she know, further, that the illusion of free will is a crutch for weak minds that are incapable of self-actualization through self-realization? And what does she mean by "free will," in the first place? Since the "will" is merely a lazy metaphor for the battleground of competing desires, passions, and wills that, taken as an aggregate, constitute the self, surely Yana would concede that it makes no more sense to attribute a quality like "freedom" to the "will" than it would to attribute a property like rationality to an inanimate object. If Yana wants to persist in promulgating a fraudulent theory of will and identity, shame on her. And if she doesn't know any better, which is certainly possible, then we are forced to conclude, as Socrates did, "What a fucking idiot!"