Well, we should be careful with that extreme also. It neglects the role that context and environment plays in our lives. It rejects the notion that societal problems have impacts on adverse behavior because it can sweep it all under the rug in the name of “personal responsibility”. Again, there is no easy answer. Humanity will wrestle with this question until its dying days because it is entirely subjective. Assuming you are not actually religious, there is no objective St. Peter to tell them they’re wrong. They just die and it’s up to those who remain to define the ethics of what they did and left.
And for the gang member to work his way out of that life is much much harder than for someone in the State Department to put active resistance against giving aid for Israel. Or for Pence to make his change, or whatever. And usually there’s no one to help him with any of it.
Well, we should be careful with that extreme also. It neglects the role that context and environment plays in our lives. It rejects the notion that societal problems have impacts on adverse behavior because it can sweep it all under the rug in the name of “personal responsibility”. Again, there is no easy answer. Humanity will wrestle with this question until its dying days because it is entirely subjective. Assuming you are not actually religious, there is no objective St. Peter to tell them they’re wrong. They just die and it’s up to those who remain to define the ethics of what they did and left.
Yeah, agreed.
And for the gang member to work his way out of that life is much much harder than for someone in the State Department to put active resistance against giving aid for Israel. Or for Pence to make his change, or whatever. And usually there’s no one to help him with any of it.