We have choice but it is limited by our motivational forces. We go to a restaurant and order food by choice but according to our taste buds or health habits. Our freedom is bound by many factors , some of which we are not even aware of. The choice is ours and the responsibility is ours but the motivating force behind the curtain is determined by our nature. On being confronted by a bully the meek among us act with timidity but the bold among us act with aggression. Our nature is determined to a large extent by factors beyond our control , we are not responsible for our genes or the environment in which we were born and yet they are responsible for our nature. The desire to change ourselves , to improve ourselves comes from within us and is innate in us , what we see as our freedom has causative factors of which we are not aware.
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 7:21 PM, pol.science kid <[email protected]> wrote: > I was thinking...it is our ability to make a choice that makes us > moral beings....but is it necessary that animals dont make a > choice...and do we really make an active choice....and i would like > someone to talk about responsibility in the same sense...
