Genetics

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Fate. Pre-determined destinies. Darwinism.

Do you think that genetic differences inexorably lead to a person eventually being what (s)he is and hence does?

For example, are MP's genetically different from the rest of us and as such they develop free from conscience ar the ability to view reality as the rest of us do? Hence many of them start out at school, seemingly OK and then as they develop and grow older they tend to veer towards the predetermined pestilence of parasitical lawyers feeding off the carrion of others' misfortunes before pursuing the natural corollary from then on in?

A bit like "boys from Brazil" :idea:
 
subman101 said:
Do you think that genetic differences inexorably lead to a person eventually being what (s)he is and hence does?
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If you brought up four sons, all treated equally, same moral values handed down, and one turns out a wrong 'un, Is that nature or nurture.?????
What about....
If one was greedy, selfish and gluttonous, the rest were caring, selfless people?
Where does the ultimate blame lie?
 
In a snooker break, you can use mechanical priciples, newtonian mechanics, to accurately predict where each ball will end up and what path it will take, where and which balls will collide etc, based on their mass, velocity and trajectory at the break.

You could liken the big bang to an infinitely collosal and complex snooker break, with each electron, proton, neutron being a 'snooker ball', with its entire fate determined by it's trajectory, energy, mass, and velocity at the big bang.

That however, would make you a freedom hating, God-loathing, tree huggin communist, spreading marxist propaganda through society like a malignant cancer. Disgusting.
 
subman101 said:
For example, are MP's genetically different from the rest of us.....
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Must have a nuclear reactor at Eton which turns their DNA into that posh-boy stuff required to be a Conservative leader.

Labour MP parents cannot afford Eton's fees so just take their children on holidays to the beaches around Sellafield.
 
trollmaster2000 said:
You could liken the big bang to an infinitely collosal and complex snooker break, with each electron, proton, neutron being a 'snooker ball', with its entire fate determined by it's trajectory, energy, mass, and velocity at the big bang.

That however, would make you a freedom hating, God-loathing, tree huggin communist, spreading marxist propaganda through society like a malignant cancer. Disgusting.
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Ah yes; the old free will versus determinism argument which has kept philosophers busy for centuries. But did they choose to study the problem or was it predetermined? :lol: :lol: :lol: A physicist would knock their heads together, line up their earholes and shout HEISENBERG!!!

But now we have a new question: If determinism fails because of the inability to accurately predict the movement of molecules through the cerebral fluid, is free will an illusion - nothing more than the large scale manifestation of quantum fluctuations in the movement of neurotransmitters? :? :? :?

And did I really choose what to write here or did I (subconsciously) select some meaningful text out of a stream of randomly generated characters? :?: :?: :?:
 
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