Circumstances
I am me and my circumstances
Circumstances of any particular person are impossible to fully comprehend as they include all the context within the person exists (e.g., all events, interactions with other people) and all qualities that the person is born with (including physical and psychological characteristics).
The issue of circumstances relates to questions of power and free will [add link]. Can we really go beyond our circumstances?
Stanford Prison Experiment https://gen.medium.com/the-lifespan-of-a-lie-d869212b1f62
"The appeal of the Stanford prison experiment seems to go deeper than its scientific validity, perhaps because it tells us a story about ourselves that we desperately want to believe: that we, as individuals, cannot really be held accountable for the sometimes reprehensible things we do. As troubling as it might seem to accept Zimbardo’s fallen vision of human nature, it is also profoundly liberating. It means we’re off the hook. Our actions are determined by circumstance. Our fallibility is situational. Just as the Gospel promised to absolve us of our sins if we would only believe, the SPE offered a form of redemption tailor-made for a scientific era, and we embraced it."
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Circumstances of any particular person are impossible to fully comprehend as they include all the context within the person exists (e.g., all events, interactions with other people) and all qualities that the person is born with (including physical and psychological characteristics).
The issue of circumstances relates to questions of power and free will [add link]. Can we really go beyond our circumstances?
Stanford Prison Experiment https://gen.medium.com/the-lifespan-of-a-lie-d869212b1f62
"The appeal of the Stanford prison experiment seems to go deeper than its scientific validity, perhaps because it tells us a story about ourselves that we desperately want to believe: that we, as individuals, cannot really be held accountable for the sometimes reprehensible things we do. As troubling as it might seem to accept Zimbardo’s fallen vision of human nature, it is also profoundly liberating. It means we’re off the hook. Our actions are determined by circumstance. Our fallibility is situational. Just as the Gospel promised to absolve us of our sins if we would only believe, the SPE offered a form of redemption tailor-made for a scientific era, and we embraced it."
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