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Originally Posted by Vincentboucher  actually, no, you are not responsable of your actions, the way you think...Thinking that you are responsable , is a great thing, but you learned to think that way.... if the idea never came into your head, you would never think like this, then how can you blame others for how they act? |
Could you qualify this statement? Are you saying that people are not responsible for the way they think or act because they learned to think and act that way?
Have you considered the ability to choose? Whether or not you believe in free will, none-the-less each of us has the ability to choose to take an action or not, and to react a certain way, or not. We can choose to insult someone, or be nice. We can rant and rampage, or take a deep breath and speak calmly. The ability to choose is accompanied by the responsibility to deal with the consequences of your choice. The circumstances which lead to each choice may alter the difficulty of the decision, but regardless of circumstance you
always have a choice.