Best Answer: Genetic or Environment does not matter You are still in charge; as long as you know you are! Bjorn Merker • 3 years ago △ ▽ There is no deeper or more pervasive conceptual confusion in matters moral than the assumption that moral responsibility is based upon, derives from, and is incurred for choices made in isolation from causal necessity (by exercise of a presumptive free will). On the contrary, we bear moral responsibility for an act not because our choice was made free of causal constraint, but exactly and directly because the causal constraints active in the choice situation were resolved by us in causal dependence upon our personal characteristics. That is, being who we are, as individuals with an individual nature and with a personal history, we did in fact choose as we did, for reasons causally grounded in our personal characteristics. Given these and the causal channels for their expression in our choices and acts, we resolved the causal influences acting upon us in a particular situation in a particular way, impressing upon that choice and the act flowing from it the stamp of our ownership. That it flowed directly and uniquely from our distinctive individual nature and history by causal necessity means that we were engaged in making the decision, and hence are responsible for it as its causal authors, morally no less than practically. npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128043329
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