00:00Nobody should say, I'm short of choices, I'm helpless, I couldn't have done anything else.
00:07A lot of Western philosophers, Karl Marx for example, would not admit that.
00:13They will say human consciousness is a product of the flow of history.
00:17Vedant smiles at that and says no, this is irresponsibility.
00:21Yes, your situations, your class, your historical lineage, your environment, your economic condition,
00:29all these do influence you but you decide the degree to which you will admit the influence
00:39with exactly the same variables but a different intent.
00:44Somebody else could have made an entirely different decision.
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