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Recently read Gabor Maté's 'Myth of normal' which is about how we are influenced by traumata and the like, which we can attain for ourselves, or by inheriting them from other people. If your parents have some mental disorder or phobia, this can also affect you as a child and for your life to come. And if I think about some other sci texts I've read about 'free choice', 'free will' and the emprical and biological view of this, I start to get the impression that humans can't control their behaviour. They are controlled by the subconcious mind, their traumata and experiences, how their family and friends influenced them.
But what if we are just really monkeys in suits, without control over what we do? That premise would mean noone is *really* fault for doing bad things, because they didn't chose to do it by theirself. Assholes would have no control over being assholes. And so on.
What are your thoughts?

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