Of all things you exert perhaps the least control over the physical location of your body. Most smart-asses and physicists (one and the same?) agree that your body is currently rocketing through space atop a spinning blue colored rock at a baffling rate that is undoubtedly both obscene and arbitrary. Rest assured, this is a process few if any have control over (don't feel bad
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You know this whole thing rests firmly in the assumption that we have control over anything and I know several persons who would vehemently argue that control is an illusion. This viewpoint has some merit, to be sure, but since it's a rather unresolvable conflict and I feel more comfortable with the notion that I am in control of myself I'm going with that
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As far as people near and far to me on this spinning blue rock are concerned I would say that just because I can reasonably predict their responses to certain actions does not mean I in any real way have control over them. Inherent in this view is that I believe certain actions are unethical and therefore not worth considering. Essentially I feel that, morally speaking, it is impossible to control the actions of another the only thing one can do is inform and hope the other chooses to act accordingly. That being said, human beings are ridiculously easy to manipulate under most circumstances however the real question I'm grappling with here isn't "What can I do?" but "What should I do
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