Or, you could say, "We are all a product of our times."
Or, "we are all a product of our environment"
or, "we are nothing more than machines reacting to our environment"
or, "there is no free will"
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I think free will exists (an assertion qualified with further assumptions), but that is a topic for another thread.
But I can also agree that we are a product of our times, it's just not a point of view that is very useful to us humans. Yes, we are sheep, but if you only think of everyone as a sheep including yourself, then why would you care enough about anything other than eating? |