This is a paradox about the relationship between determinism and ethics. Simply stated, the paradox is as follows:
Determinism affords no reason for doing anything, and is therefore ethically irrelevant. Therefore it does not render ethics irrelevant, since if it did, it would be ethically relevant.
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