Agreed! What’s the level of personal responsibility for sins (or virtues!) vs our surroundings or flukes of neurology.
The older I get the more tragedies I see and fewer villains.
In Mormon theology such influences are considered as well! The flip side of understanding your own sins is that others will understand them too - so if you killed someone during a psychotic break beyond your control, your victim will see and understand exactly what happened. It’s the truest form of empathy. Seeing through the eyes of everyone you ever interacted with, for good or ill.
Agreed! What’s the level of personal responsibility for sins (or virtues!) vs our surroundings or flukes of neurology.
The older I get the more tragedies I see and fewer villains.
In Mormon theology such influences are considered as well! The flip side of understanding your own sins is that others will understand them too - so if you killed someone during a psychotic break beyond your control, your victim will see and understand exactly what happened. It’s the truest form of empathy. Seeing through the eyes of everyone you ever interacted with, for good or ill.