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You are an exact product of your circumstances, it's not fair to attribute your actions to you being 'good' or 'evil' when we know your actions are results of your formative years(your entire life is formative years)
I don't blame clay for being the shape it is moulded into.
I don't blame humans for having the traumas, childhood, genes etc that they have.
Comment by diogenesthehopeful at 27/08/2024 at 11:42 UTC
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I don't blame clay for being the shape it is moulded into.
Granted. However this sub seems mostly about whether or not "the clay" has any control over its actions. The free will proponent seems to think so. Society seems to think so. Physicalism doesn't seem to imply, until it figures out how its done, that it has control.
Comment by Super_Automatic at 24/08/2024 at 16:42 UTC
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Do you see it the same way when thinking about the victim? Was the victim of a crime born destined to be the victim of that crime?
Comment by TheAncientGeek at 24/08/2024 at 14:12 UTC
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Do you want to empty the prisons? If not, why imprison people?