Where do you imagine their patience and diligence came from? They decided to be those things, or they were raised in a way to have those things? Or their DNA controls those things. Where and how would they have made such a choice?
Nature vs. nurture is an old debate. The fact is that anyone can choose to learn more regardless of their inherent nature. If you are an absolutist about how people are going to be, then you must believe in predetermination and you have no reason to live because everything is already set in stone and you have no culpability for what you do. If that's the case, then go Burn Loot Murder with the animals in Minneapolis.
Why would understanding how things work make me want to be a retarded person? Your reason for living is imaging that you had some sort of control over who you are? That's a weird reason for living.
You've got it backwards. My point wasn't that controlling who I am is a reason for living. My point is that if your future is predetermined, life is pointless. They are not one and the same.
Where do you imagine their patience and diligence came from? They decided to be those things, or they were raised in a way to have those things? Or their DNA controls those things. Where and how would they have made such a choice?
Nature vs. nurture is an old debate. The fact is that anyone can choose to learn more regardless of their inherent nature. If you are an absolutist about how people are going to be, then you must believe in predetermination and you have no reason to live because everything is already set in stone and you have no culpability for what you do. If that's the case, then go Burn Loot Murder with the animals in Minneapolis.
Why would understanding how things work make me want to be a retarded person? Your reason for living is imaging that you had some sort of control over who you are? That's a weird reason for living.
You've got it backwards. My point wasn't that controlling who I am is a reason for living. My point is that if your future is predetermined, life is pointless. They are not one and the same.