If humans, like all other animate or inanimate things in the universe function as a product of a complex series of causal events, wherein lies their virtue or their vice? How much control does any one of us have over our actions? Are people ‘good’ simply because they have been lucky enough to be able to control their volitions, desires, and intentions in ways that are approved by a given society? And are others ‘bad’ simply because they have not been so lucky? How much control did Tiger Woods have over his actions? How much control does an alcoholic have? Or a serial killer? Or you?
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