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OftenBen · 3589 days ago · link · · parent · post: When is an individual not responsible? What does 'responsible' mean?
Personally, I enjoy your description, and agree with it mostly. A person is the sum of their environments effect on their genetics, essentially. The problem however, is that while you admit that Person decided X on their own, but every experience and interaction with every single thing ever encountered in Person's life is responsible collectively
you deny his agency. Personally I don't believe all that much in free will, but I think that it's necessary that a large part of laws be written as if we do.