(April 26, 2015 at 9:10 pm)Dystopia Wrote: It's basically the "is there free will?" and thus "can people really choose?"
Honestly as you may have noticed I just arrived home and I'm really tired so I'm not going to type a long rant on what I think about the subject while I'm sleepy - I'll do it tomorrow (it's a promise!).
That's fair enough, don't feel under any obligation or anything.
As to the above question.
I think people can choose, and communities as a whole get to choose (to some extent), how they're perceived by their own behaviours. There's shit going down in Baltimore right now isn't there? The gangs of thugs attacking innocent people have a choice about what they're doing. People justifying other people being pure scum by saying "they're born into the ghetto" or "the police system is corrupt" or "black people are being oppressed" is wrong IMO. It may well be true that they are this, they are that, but it isn't an excuse. Essentially the point of the first video posted.
