So a person who grew up in a trailer park with alcoholic parents have no free will, and are destined to become a broke person living in a trailer? Sorry. People evolve and change and make their own life amazing, despite where they come from. I'm sure there are thousands of kids growing up poor in some far away land that will come to Europe and America and become rich. Nothing is determined. Sure, the ODDS are lower for a lot of people. That's how the world works. But nothing is impossible. And like @adhoctoth said, kids dont grow up in vacuum. They are born by their parents who made their choices. How else can you explain stories of people fleeing from poverty or war, and end up rich and successful? Or do you argue that that never happens? Once you're poor, you can never get out of that? C'mon.
So a person who grew up in a trailer park with alcoholic parents have no free will, and are destined to become a broke person living in a trailer? Sorry. People evolve and change and make their own life amazing, despite where they come from. I'm sure there are thousands of kids growing up poor in some far away land that will come to Europe and America and become rich. Nothing is determined. Sure, the ODDS are lower for a lot of people. That's how the world works. But nothing is impossible. And like @adhoctoth said, kids dont grow up in vacuum. They are born by their parents who made their choices. How else can you explain stories of people fleeing from poverty or war, and end up rich and successful? Or do you argue that that never happens? Once you're poor, you can never get out of that? C'mon.