Steven Pinker Discusses Rationality and Humanist Values
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I Didn't Do It, Your Honor. My Genes Made Me Do It
Bob Greene: You seemed circumspect with the concept of free will. He says you said that a genetic and environmental determinism is not the total answer. Greene: The alternative to it, namely environmental determinism, can be just as much an escape from responsibility. It wasn't my fault, your honor; it was my parents' fault, he says.
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