issue93 大家帮忙看看吧，imong 生病了，我也快不行了。。

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Issue 93:
“The concept of individual responsibility is a necessary fiction. Although society must hold individuals accountable for their own actions, people’s behavior is largely determined by forces not of their own making. ”
   
I strongly agree with the speaker insofar as the society should hold individuals, at least those in adulthood, accountable for their actions. Yet, I suspend my approval to the second contention that individual responsibility is a fiction in that human behavior is more often than not determined by forces out of their own control. As for me, such a cynical assertion is contradicted with either our empirical observation or the basic ideas of morality accountability crucial for democratic society.  

Admittedly, external factors, which are beyond the individual intelligent or emotional control, do exist and determine human behavior in a certain degree. For one thing, as a social creature, human beings are greatly influenced by the outer society, especially the traditional culture and established customs of it. No one ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a specific set of cultures, which consist of customs and ways of thinking. His very concept of the truth and the false is firmly rooted in the patterns and standards handed down in his society or community. In a word, cultural tradition does play a significant role to shape an individual’s behavior. Moreover, as indicated by the recent publicized human-genomic-map, the biologic properties of human being also contribute to predetermine some nature of individuals. Some researchers have even starved to interpret some individuals’ abnormal emotional reaction with the specific location of some genes. Whatever the result may be, it really hints that inherit factors do affect an individual’s behavior.  

Such contentions as these may shed light to those who assert that individual responsibility is nothing more than a fiction. As the external forces are so powerful, how could an individual decide his own action or choice by himself? However, the fact is that these people have been too presumptuous to overrate the importance of the external factors while overlook the more important innate factors to determine human decisions or behaviors. The so-called individual responsibility is objectively an essential fact in according with our empirical observation, and furthermore, to embrace the concept of individual responsibility would be crucial to the stability and law system in a democratic society.
The predominant reason why I contend that individual responsibility should be accountable for individual behavior is based on the empirical observation. Every one may turn to the twin brothers or sisters to see such an apt case. No other two individuals would bear more resemblance than the twins, born and brought up in the same family, sharing almost the identical appearance. It is likely to obviate all other external factors, either social or biological and therefore to predict that all twins would act similarly to each other. However, it is not the case at all. Another factor, more manifest and more powerful, exists. That is their innate difference in characters which are shaped by their own experience and inborn factors together. When faced with the same thing, the reaction and correspondingly behavior would deviate great form one to the other. The determining fact here is nothing but individual choice and preference. When breaking a bottle, for instance, a child may frankly admit the wrong deed to the parents, while upon his twin brother, he may choose to conceal it from the parents in order to avoid a criticize or pretend to be a good child. Hence, it would not be difficult for us to see that individual behavior criteria and habit do exist and determine the final behavior of a person, even when he is still a child.

As individual responsibility does objectively exist, it is the society’s responsibility to hold any person, as long as he is emotionally normal and is in his adulthood, to be accountable for his own behavior. Such is practice is essentially significant to the establishment and persistence of democratic justice and the system of law. Should individual be free from the responsibility of individual behavior, human, especially those who have overwhelmingly power may aggressively violate the benefit of those weakened and still be free to be charged for his inhuman behavior. Such cases would not happen in a democratic society while thoroughly laws are promulgated which account competent human being for responsibility to his own behavior.

To sum up, under no circumstance would human behavior escape the external influence coming from the social traditional and cultural forces or from the inborn biological nature, however, this external forces should never overshadow the innate forces which are still the predominant fact to shape an individual’s eventual behavior. Broadly speaking, it is due to the individual responsibility and the correspondingly law system based on it that democratic society could keep on being in the right direction. What a horrible picture would it be if nobody could trusted to take up his responsibility to his own behavior?

一个小时洋洋洒洒的，自己感觉不是很紧凑，大家给点意见把，鼓励鼓励也行哦。。
小女子先行谢过了。

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what a long essay!
i am afraid there is some overlaps in discussing man's innate factor's key role in making decisions. as result, i believe it would be better if u combine the 3rd and 4th paragraph and make certain deletion.
moreover, it seems that the argument of the role of external factor in more convincing than that of the internal factors, for the former employs authoritative example--genome maps while the latter uses a very long scenario, which is seemingly acceptable, but has not been proved by scientific evidence.

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好长啊
我本来想看完的，但是我是没有耐心，只看了一点，所以我就不乱说了
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为自己的前途担忧中......

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