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GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I think the point they were making is that a decent support system is not the determining factor as your post suggests.

Even your counterarguments rest on the assumption that this is true. You suggest that if it’s not a support system they just be “inherently” good or evil, completely ignoring the more likely possibility that there are countless other variables that could factor into what kind of person someone is.

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SenK@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Even your counterarguments rest on the assumption that this is true. You suggest that if it’s not a support system they must be “inherently” good or evil, completely ignoring the more likely possibility that there are countless other variables that could factor into what kind of person someone becomes.

Like what? You have inherent factors (genes) or environment (the support network, “the village that raises the child” etc.).

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- ageedizzle@piefed.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  A lot of this comes down to people’s free will. If you could perfectly analyze the reasons for every decision a person makes then those decisions would hardly be free.
  
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  - SenK@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    You’d have to now prove that free will is real.
    
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    ageedizzle@piefed.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I can’t prove that to you. And you can’t prove it’s not real, either. This debate has been at a standstill since the Ancient Greeks started discussing it. I just took it for granted in my previous comment because the vast majority of people, including professional philosophers, see here) believe it to be real.
    
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