Interesting... I have few points to make though...
What do you mean by no responsibility?
You realize that if you throw out the concept... you not only dismiss evil deeds... but good ones as well?
Can you really compare Mother Theresa and Adolf Hitler? Do you think they just happened... or did the former consciously work on doing great deeds? As did the later?
Same circustances produce different people. Hard times produce heroes just as people who are... not so great.
I personally prefer to acknowledge people's greatness... even if it means I have to acknowledge there is bad people in the world. I kinda have hard time thinking that let's say Milosevic was just consequence of his time...
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-Because everything, including behavior, is caused by many factors outside a person's control, we can be accepting of everyone, regardless of what s/he has done in the past. We also can be forgiving of ourselves.
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forgivness is not contradictory to responsibility. IN fact, it's part of it. If there is no responsibility... what is there to forgive?
And again... responsibility goes both ways. Yes, it's convenient to say you are not responsible for the bad about you... but if it is so, the good about you would not be your doing either.
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-since everything is mind, there is no physical world. It is an illusion.
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Philosophers said this from time to time.
I do believe there is physical world, but it's hard to grasp. Every person percieves it differently. There's shared reality, but that's just combination of individual interpretations.
Hence truth is relative and bound in time and space. Science tells us what we know at the moment, not how it really is. And morality? Time and space oriented.
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