{"id":17744,"date":"2016-02-05T05:13:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T10:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/?p=17744"},"modified":"2016-03-18T12:55:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T17:55:24","slug":"eps-48-free-will-luck-and-psychopaths-guest-diana-hsieh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/eps-48-free-will-luck-and-psychopaths-guest-diana-hsieh\/","title":{"rendered":"EPS 48: Free Will, Luck, and Psychopaths- Guest Diana Hsieh"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/?media_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.blubrry.com%2Fspark_my_muse%2Fcontent.blubrry.com%2Fspark_my_muse%2FEps48MoralLuck.mp3&amp;podcast_link=https%3A%2F%2Flisadelay.com%2Fblog%2Feps-48-free-will-luck-and-psychopaths-guest-diana-hsieh%2F\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"165\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"blubrryplayer-1\" class=\"blubrryplayer\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\"><\/iframe><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/spark_my_muse\/content.blubrry.com\/spark_my_muse\/Eps48MoralLuck.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=17744-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/spark_my_muse\/content.blubrry.com\/spark_my_muse\/Eps48MoralLuck.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Eps48MoralLuck.mp3\">Download<\/a> (40.5MB) | <a href=\"#\" class=\"powerpress_link_e\" title=\"Embed\" onclick=\"return powerpress_show_embed('17744-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_embed_box\" id=\"powerpress_embed_17744-podcast\" style=\"display: none;\"><input id=\"powerpress_embed_17744-podcast_t\" type=\"text\" value=\"&lt;iframe src=&quot;https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/?media_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.blubrry.com%2Fspark_my_muse%2Fcontent.blubrry.com%2Fspark_my_muse%2FEps48MoralLuck.mp3&amp;podcast_link=https%3A%2F%2Flisadelay.com%2Fblog%2Feps-48-free-will-luck-and-psychopaths-guest-diana-hsieh%2F&quot; 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Nature, nurture, and moral responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>James Fallon.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/the-neuroscientist-who-discovered-he-was-a-psychopath-180947814\/?no-ist\" target=\"_blank\"> Smithsonian Magazine article.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MIN 12:30<\/p>\n<p>Environmental conditions and choice.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe nature and nurture is a false dichotomy.<\/p>\n<p>Blaming people who are raised in tough circumstances and keeping people accountable for their choices too because they know the consequences.<\/p>\n<p>MIN 16:30<\/p>\n<p>Common sense view that you reach an age where you know better.<\/p>\n<p>MIN 18<\/p>\n<p>Self knowledge is powerful. We all have tendencies we have to overcome.<\/p>\n<p>MIN 19<\/p>\n<p>In character building it help when we understand what we have control over and what we don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Know what alternatives there are.<\/p>\n<p>MIN 22<\/p>\n<p>In defense of praise and blame. (How we can improve and be morally responsible.)<\/p>\n<p>MIN 23<\/p>\n<p>Make progress as best as you can.<\/p>\n<p>MIN 24<\/p>\n<p>Is morality relative? Whose morality is right?* <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">(see my note below)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>MIN 26<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the practical effects of morality.<\/p>\n<p>Value-based morality.<\/p>\n<p><b>MIN 28<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/philosophyinaction.com\" target=\"_blank\">philosophyinaction.com<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/philosophyinaction.com\/moralluck\" target=\"_blank\">philosophyinaction.com\/moralluck<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>*<strong><em>my note: <\/em><\/strong>This line of inquiry poses something\u00a0interesting about a common worldview\u00a0(though largely an unconscious one) in American culture\u00a0and it is a discourse quite popular in some circles also about &#8220;culturally relative morality&#8221; vs.\u00a0morality sourced and referenced in a Creator who is objectively good and perfect. C.S. Lewis reflects on this in his book &#8220;Mere Christianity&#8221;. 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