The topic that I found to be the most interesting was hard determinism. Similar to libertarianism, hard determinism states that casual determinism and free will are incompatible. According to determinism, there is no such thing as free will. It states that a person’s actions are the effects of their will. A person’s will comes from their desires, motives, and emotions. And that a person’s desires, motives, and emotions are the effects of their genes, upbringing, and experiences. This chain of causality was interesting primarily because it raised the question of accountability. While reading the passage I remembered a discussion I had in my psychology class. The discussion had to do with the upbringing and mental illnesses of notorious criminals.
