| happydolphin said: Nope, I don't agree. @bold. For decisions that are made earlier in a muderer's lifetime, I believe, before his past decisions forged his destiny, his decision making isn't as simple as you put it. For example, a murderer may have the option to satisfy a temporary craving to kill, or resist the craving and suffer withdrawal temporarily. For example, if he chooses to resist, he may suffer withdrawal and doubt his decision. He may or may not be aware of this phenomenon, and his awareness to the inconvenience of not satisfying a temporary pleasure may be the outcome of previous choices. At some point in his life he made choices over which he also did not know the consequences exactly, but someone told him "this you shouldn't do" or "this you should do". Ultimately the person made choices that formed their identity, and they may or may not have resisted the need to satisfy a temporary pleasure instead of resisting and obeing the best practice of a parent or mentor. As such, a person may go through this situation educated or not, but ultimately the person can choose one or the other, they are never forced. It's as simple as rolling a dice really, not as deterministic as you say. Even, I dare you to base some decisions on the roll of a dice, it could be interesting. |
And whether he chose to resist the need to satisfy a temporary pleasure or not depended on two things:
1. His will-power
2. The amount of pleasure gained by not resisting
And he cannot control any of those. Different persons means different values on those two which is why people choose differently even if they are in the exact same scenario. Though I must admit that this is extremely simplified.
