Posted on 01/15/2024 9:03:20 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
One of the most common tendencies of human nature is that of placing responsibility on some external agency for sins we have commited or mistakes we have made. We are forever attempting to find some scapegoat on which we cast responsibility for our actions. ... And so modern man was convinced that psychology had given him explanations which relieved him of any responsibility for his actions.
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We are all familiar with the most common agencies on which we project responsibility for our actions. First we turn to environment. How easy it is for one to affirm that one's whole personality make-up and indeed one's very destiny itself is determined by one's environment... Yet such persons as this fail to realize that many individuals rise from the very lowest of environments to be some of the most noble characters of human history.
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Another external agency on which we readily cast responsibility for our actions is heredity. There are those who would affirm that one is completely determined by heredity. How easy it is to say, “I would have been better if I had had better hereditary circumstances.”
Here again those who project total responsibility for their actions on hereditary circumstances fail to see that numerous individuals rise above such circumstances.
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Not environment; not heredity; but personal response is the final determining factor in our lives. And herein lies our area of responsibility.
(Excerpt) Read more at kinginstitute.stanford.edu ...
The Left will eventually cancel MLK for being too moderate.
Like soliciting hookers, and playing footsie with commies.
This morning, our local Fox affiliate was gushing all over MLK and all things black.
I sent an email and asked when I can see their report on the 40-45 (at least) women he slept with, his orgies, his illegitimate kid, and many sexual harassment cases.
Got no answer.
Yeah, in the not to distant past. Now? Pfffftttttt!
Hookers and then violently beating up the hookers after using their services. And some of the services were extremely perverted. MLK was not non-violent.
Nowadays.
Says the philander of that decade
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