Whose Fault is It?

Question 1: In the case of individuals who suffer from mental illness and commit suicide how would that be understood from both a determinist and free will point of view?

This question is actually really tricky, but I feel like it is an important issue to question within these circumstances. Firstly, I know that from the determinist perspective the suicide is predetermined. No matter what happened prior to the incident the suicide had to happen. The person does not have any way to change the events. Along with that, their mental illness is predetermined. The whole event, their illness and the suicide, was already laid out to happen. There was no way of interfering with it no matter what precautions were taken. If it happened, it was inevitable.

However, it becomes more complicated from the free will perspective. To what point can someone have control of a mental illness? I do not know how much of the free will perspective I have unraveled because there is a lot in that theory that makes this question hard to understand. One thing is certain: that the point of view on this subject from the free will perspective is very different from the determinist point of view.

Natural Laws?

Question 2: How does the state of natural law affect the idea of free will?

I feel like this blog post is very relevant based on the looming storm. I was wondering what effect the understanding of natural law has on free will. If we understand free will well enough then we can have some control of what happens in the wake of severe weather or natural disasters, things we believe are out of our hands. However, it would seem that if we have free will we could possibly change how we would act in the event of, say, a hurricane. It is, according to the idea of free will, up to the individual how they act in these situations. However, to a certain extent they cannot control how they react in certain situations. Some actions may be forced because of the situation. There is a fine line between what someone can control and what they cannot. I find the free will perspective to be rather mixed when considering things like this.