“There’s no free will,” says the philosopher;
   “To hang is most unjust.”
“There is no free will,” assents the officer;
   “We hang because we must.”

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. 8, “Epigrams” (1911)

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