In a nutshell, you are one responsible mother fucker. For every bad habit, for every inkling, every virtue or vice you are responsible for because at one point you had a choice whether or not to participate in one act which may have resulted in a perpetuation of acts. I like how Aristotle is honest about not giving us all the answers. He recognizes that humans are flawed and sometimes, you just need moral luck to become virtuous. I wonder if Aristotle considers himself lucky. He contradicts himself to an extent. He argues that humans choose everything that we do but in a sense we also are born into particular circumstances; we cant choose who we are raised by, what school our parents put ourselves in, our gender, our physical appearance which no doubt affirms the development of certain social characteristics. I wonder what Aristotle’s vices were. He preaches that the virtuous man will just ‘know’ how to act based on his proper moral conditioning and experience. It is like a top chef on ‘Chopped’, he gets three random ass ingredients and knows exactly what to do with them or at least ‘make it work.’ God I love FoodNetwork show references, so many lessons of life to be learned in the pressured creation of multidimensional courses
