@speakout
And my wrongdoings apparently include even being born!
I think, this makes sense when you link it with the idea many have concerning free will. How much what be believe and in turn do is voluntary and how much is simply a product of nature and nurture. As I said in my post earlier,
As I believe, beliefs or lack of them affect society.
Say, for example you did believe, beliefs are involuntary - a product of a combination of genetic inheritance and socialisation. Then there would be little room for hope over the outcomes for someone born in a deeply dysfunctional family to parents who had inheritable health conditions. People perhaps would be tempted to extrapolate the risks (and believe their extrapolations) over what could be expected of people with certain backgrounds and family history of certain conditions. What about growing up in dysfunctional societies or communities? Growing up amongst communities or in countries with different values to our own? Look at the ever widening understanding of what is inherited through genetics - mental health conditions, obesity, cancer,....the list is forever lengthening. This type of thinking creates prejudice.
If you believe we are more than a product of nature and nurture - what is the additional element? Could it be something spiritual? Something which is not a physical phenomenon in itself but affects the physical world as belief does.
Now, unless you believe you are perfect there will be some things about yourself that you would like to improve. Does your background and genetic inheritance impede you at all in this? You clearly see faults with some close family of your's (as you mentioned them upthread) and I expect they have hurt you due to these faults, at least at some point in the past. How able are you to recover? What is it in you that gives you the power to recover from injury and frailties? What is it in you that allows you not to inherit their faults?