wow, until know I was feeling like the only human being in the world with so many uncommon ways of thinking. I can guess in my school I am still the only...
But here goes some little questions because I diverge just a little bit.
I don't eat because I choose to eat - I eat because I am hungry. Hunger is the causal influence driving my decision-making process. Were it not for the need to consume food in order to survive, the thought of consumption would never enter into my mind as a random desire. As such, I equally believe that people cannot be held responsible for their actions - whether morally, legally, philosophically, or however else. Each action is driven by some influence, or accumulation thereof.
You need to add explicitly that people cannot be held responsible when the influence is very strong or extreme. Following your example, with just a bit of hunger, normally no one does cannibalism.
Do you think a influence is enough to control
totally your actions? Even under the same extreme situations some people act differently.
If the world were duplicated, and the circumstances of your life were repeated in this duplicate world in perfect detail, how would the choices in your life between worlds A and B compare? Would and could your duplicate self make different choices in lieu of every circumstance and detail being the same? I don't believe so. Perhaps that implies some random logic. Even in technology, there is no such thing as computational randomness. The generation of a "random" integer depends on a formula, as well as existing conditions. The outcome can be determined by examining those conditions, and how their influence does, in fact, create a predetermined outcome. For all intent and purpose, there is the illusion of having generated a random value.
This happens only and only if there are no random events. At higher level of things nothing seems random to me. Just the most complex systems seem to have randomness because I can't predict EVERYTHING. But it seems predictable.
But at quantum level, some events, as far as our Physics go, are random.
But in higher scales the random quantum events could be despised? If yes, then our mind is technically deterministic, if not it has some level of randomness, not exactly free will! Note that act randomly is not what you want, is what happens. This is a strange conclusion... I only arrived because of this post.
Adepts of liberalism have a exit to this dilemma?
I think I got ahead of you about the free will with this conclusion.---
That is a good "self-biography" (there is a better term, just can't translate to english) for your creative works.
Actually my life is not as hard and so my thoughts are not as strong as yours. But I, too, tend to think not emotionally but commit the error of trying to think emotionally. I don't have the same conclusions about how to behave as the people around me but I am influenced by them... So I act "normally".
My explanation for evil, non fictional, is the evil part of human nature. Actually basic human nature is not very different from other animals nature.
And our animal nature is due to evolutionism. It is easy to imagine greedier behaviour will lead to better success in life.
But I attribute the good part of our nature to cooperation gained in evolution and society, too.
Simple as that.
And yes, behaviour, personality, psychology, etc. is either passed on DNA and/or learned from the parents/community. I am not sure, but most probably by DNA because of my daily observation: too many parents complain about some traits from the father, for example, even when the father is away since the child was born. Scientific approach can study this and arrive to a conclusion.
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