Everyone is fighting for “rights” and the freedom to make various choices, yet few people seem to believe that we actually have any.
All ideas are in some sense correlated. In other words, your idea about one thing—especially something as fundamental as whether creation is good, or whether humans have the ability to act freely, or other metaphysical stances like a belief in the dignity of all human life, regardless of merit—affect your ability to accept or even to grasp other ideas.
Some ideas are more correlated than others. They tend to create a cascade effect of other ideas and beliefs. For instance: if you accepted the idea that you have smoked too long and that “the damage is already done, so there is no use in quitting”, your actions are going to look very different than someone who has not accepted that idea—someone who believes change and recovery is possible. Ideas matter.