My feelings move towards the ultimate responsibility is on society (all of us) for not creating a better system. Though there are always going to be people that just don’t give a fuck.
My feelings move towards the ultimate responsibility is on society (all of us) for not creating a better system. Though there are always going to be people that just don’t give a fuck.
There’s a lot of research demonstrating that external factors have a pretty major impact on criminal behavior (nutrition, socialization, etc during developmental years, as examples). So society plays a role.
If you’re interest in reading, Robert Sapolsky’s Behave is pretty long and a little heavy, but a great, reasonably broad view of the things that make us tick from a bunch of different lenses. It’s tied-ish with Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow as my favorite non-fiction, and looks more at social factors like the example above. I haven’t read Determined yet, and really doubt it’s going to convince me not to believe in free will, but his underlying base of knowledge is legit.