If free will was not real

[bennyboy]

"will" is the capacity of a sentient agent to realize intent-- for example, I don't really know how to "move" a leg-- I want it to move, and it moves.

Then the will falls under the constraint of intended realization.  Moreover, are your intentions freely wrought? How can any of this be considered free?

Intentions are of the self-- feelings, memories, personality, etc. I don't think it makes sense to categorize them as "free" any more than it does to categorize my foot as free. It is the capacity, once the intent is in place, to REALIZE it which I call will. Ans since will is the bridge between intent and its physical expression, any physical impediment or obstacle to the expression of intent limits its freedom.

Your argument is akin to a man held within a cell proclaiming that he holds the willful capacity to freely move about his environs all for the effort of denying his ambient constraints.

At best....it's superficial.

It might seem superficial until you don't have free will. If you are compelled or blocked from making decisions and acting on them, freedom will be real enough concept for you, I'm sure.