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From: lonetto@phri.UUCP (Michael Lonetto)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Responsibility and blame
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Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 20:15:50 EDT
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> I'm not sure what this has to do with net.singles, but I'm a bit surprised
> to see claims that people aren't responsible for their own emotions.
(comments on existence of emotions and their social life)
> To me those are silly statements.  You are made up of your genes and
> brain cells.  You are made up of the patterns within those cells, such
> as your emotions.
> Of course, outside events do affect you.
>   We still think
> a program is a bad program even though it is the total creation of another.
> And we aren't programs somebody wrote, I hope 8-)

Now that people are starting to sound reasonable can we leave it at:
1)  Some experiences will generate an emotional response in any of us, what
response (and what experiences) will depend on the indiviual and his/her
past experience.

2)  How we react to these emotions is our own responsibility

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