| Jay520 said: Thanks, I'll look into that. As for the last sentence, I genuinely believe that anybody that has deviated from the norm did so because they've had abnormal experiences and/or abnormal genetic makeup. Thus, making them do what they 'think' is better. Had they not had those abnormal experiences/genetic makeup, they would have probably been normal. But I'll look it up though. |
A pure metaphysical libertarian would have completely discount things like heredity and environmental factors in order to pretend that everybody is an entirely self-made man, something that seems so self-evidently false that it's not worth discussing. But a hard determinist either has to live his life hypocritically - pretending he's making choices that he knows he isn't really making because he could never have done anything else - or would else fall into a fatalistic torpor and may as well not be living at all.
Humans are conformist by nature, this much is true. That's precisely why culture is so important, and why a culture of conformity, of failure, of beating down the tallest nail, of "don't ask, don't think, don't try" is a waste of countless potentially brilliant minds, whereas a culture of free inquiry allows everyone to make the most of his mind and his "free will".
