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Skepticism About Moral Responsibility
- exolymph 9y agoPersonally, I think that moral responsibility (or ethical, if you prefer) is a sort of convenient fiction we use to function as a society. > You're born with particular DNA programming, which determines how you perceive and process outside stimuli, thus shaping your progress as a person, as a human psycho-physiological entity. Nature is what determines your reaction to nurture, and you don't have any control over either. They both affect you, certainly, but not in a way that you can manipulate independently of who you already are... it gets circular. > And yet we think that we have the power to decide things without reference to our formative contexts. Regardless of my philosophical position, my brain is convinced that it is reasonable. Accordingly, society is built on the idea of responsibility for one's actions. I'm not saying that it shouldn't be! As far as I can tell there's no alternative. But how interesting, that the entire system of civilization is constructed around a logical fallacy. https://www.sonyaellenmann.com/2015/04/free-will-mental-illness-abuse.html https://www.sonyaellenmann.com/2015/04/free-will-mental-illn...