Post by danpeale on Oct 23, 2014 1:15:06 GMT
1) When are we not responsible for our own beliefs or behaviors?
-There are times in every person's life that they are not responsible for their own beliefs or behaviors. The specific times that we are not responsible for our own beliefs is in both our religious and political developments. As a child, we just attend whatever church or synagogue or religious structure our parents attend, with no freedom for ourselves to choose really until we go to college and strike out on our own. The political development is that most children aren's schooled in political theory, and so they just take their parent's views. A time when a person is not responsible for their own behaviors is when they are either a very small child or a very old person. When a person is a small child, they don't yet have the cognitive skills to fully determine the difference between right and wrong behaviors. As an old person, diseases such as Alzheimer's can cause erratic behavior and obviously the person isn't responsible for their disease. However this doesn't relate to this section of the book because both Perry Smith and Dick Hickock were completely responsible for their own beliefs and behaviors.
-There are times in every person's life that they are not responsible for their own beliefs or behaviors. The specific times that we are not responsible for our own beliefs is in both our religious and political developments. As a child, we just attend whatever church or synagogue or religious structure our parents attend, with no freedom for ourselves to choose really until we go to college and strike out on our own. The political development is that most children aren's schooled in political theory, and so they just take their parent's views. A time when a person is not responsible for their own behaviors is when they are either a very small child or a very old person. When a person is a small child, they don't yet have the cognitive skills to fully determine the difference between right and wrong behaviors. As an old person, diseases such as Alzheimer's can cause erratic behavior and obviously the person isn't responsible for their disease. However this doesn't relate to this section of the book because both Perry Smith and Dick Hickock were completely responsible for their own beliefs and behaviors.