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>Your values/behaviours are given to you via both your genes and your environment - which are effectively random. This is an information free sentence. Everyth
by moultano 14y ago
>Your values/behaviours are given to you via both your genes and your environment - which are effectively random.
This is an information free sentence. Everything that makes me _me_ comes from my genes and my environment. If it were much different, I wouldn't be me. If you are attributing everything I do to an external force even though it goes through the intermediate step of my identity and skills in the process, then you just have a tautological statement. Sure, things happen because things happen. Bravo, but I'm also one of those things.
- confluence 14y agoThe point of that sentence was to indicate two things. Firstly your existence is random. Secondly - you are wholly the product of your arbitrary environment. That is all.
- r00fus 14y agoPoint being, a whole lot of what makes you "you" is completely not in your hands. Not free will. I didn't choose to get born. To dictate policies that advocate punishing and killing people for what they had no control over (like being born in a muslim-majority country) is folly, or worse - a justification for bad behavior.